Architecture of complex web applications. Second Edition.

Preface

Bad habits

1. Growth issues
2. Extraction the logic
3. The “simplicity” of REST
4. PHP dark magic
5. “Rapid” application development
6. Premature optimization
7. Saving LOC
8. Other sources of pain

Dependency Injection

1. Single Responsibility Principle
2. Dependency Injection
3. Inheritance
4. Example with image uploading
5. Extending interfaces
6. Traits
7. Static methods
8. A few words at the end of the chapter

Painless refactoring

1. “Static” typing
2. Templates
3. Model fields
4. Laravel Idea

Application Layer

1. Passing request data
2. Working with database
3. Service classes or command classes?
4. A few words at the end of the chapter

Error handling

1. Exceptions
2. Base exception class
3. Global handler
4. Checked and unchecked exceptions
5. A few words at the end of the chapter

Validation

1. Database-related validation
2. Two levels of validation
3. Validation with attributes
4. Value objects
5. Value object as a composition of values
6. Value objects and validation
7. A few words at the end of the chapter

Events

1. Database transactions
2. Queues
3. Events
4. Using Eloquent events
5. Entities as event class fields
6. A few words at the end of the chapter

Unit testing

1. First steps
2. Testing stateful classes
3. Testing classes with dependencies
4. Types of software testing
5. Testing in Laravel
6. Application layer unit testing
7. Application testing strategy

Domain Layer

1. When and why?
2. Domain layer implementation
3. Handling errors in the Domain layer
4. A few words at the end of the chapter

CQRS

1. Different nature of data reading and writing
2. A typical service class
3. Command Query Responsibility Segregation
4. A few words at the end of the chapter

Event sourcing

1. The game of kings
2. Unit-testing entities
3. A world without magic
4. Implementing ES
5. A few words at the end of the chapter

Conclusion

1. Classics
2. Unit testing
3. DDD
4. ES and CQRS