Dry & Skinny Laravel Application

dry_n_skinny.md

Dry & Skinny

1. Fat Model & Skinny Controller

2. Bus / Job Pattern

   • Command Bus > Jobs
     • A task take a small unit of work
     • NOT return a value
   • Further reading: CRUD & CQRS
   • Reusable, Skinny Controller as more reusable codes move to Job
   • Then use in Job Queue
   • Why Jobs?
     • Better response to end user
     • Heavy job can be delayed
   • Don't forget to Log

3. Event / Listener

   • Some event happened, multiple listeners to the event

4. Middleware

   • Authentication & Authorization always in middleware

5. Mutators / Transformers

   • Format a model presentation
   • Controller don't need to play with formatting
   • Helps in defining API
   • Fractal by PHPLeague

6. Specifications

   • return true or false
   • and() / or()
   • chaining
   • usually in call in controller

7. Takeaways

   • offload things from controllers
   • refactor repeated code
   • read Laravel docs