A recap from our meetup about Design Patterns & Testing in Laravel

Our meetup took place on June 18, 2019.

Bobby Bouwmann came back with an updated version of his talk on Design Patterns in Laravel. Bobby will present this refreshed version on Design Patterns at LaraconUS in New York and Laravel Live UK in London.

Design patterns are commonly defined as solutions to recurring design problems. Frameworks like Laravel use Design Patterns throughout the codebase to keep structure and maintainability. Two years ago he talked about the factory, manager, strategy and provider design pattern. The patterns are all used within the framework. In this talk we explored another set of Design Patterns that are used in Laravel. Once we had a basis of the design patterns we went into some practical examples.

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Testing: We all know we should do it. But where to start? What should we test? Do we need a CI pipeline to test? How do you convince the manager to spend time on testing?

These are all valid questions, and Michiel answered them them all. Michiel's been adding tests to his code for a few years now, and he's at the point where adding tests speed up his development instead of slowing it down. But the road to this point can be bumpy.

Want to be there next time?