Enjoying going through the laracasts intro to laravel videos – lots of mini-projects, it’s a little like doing code katas.
Oh sweet. Web-mode in emacs automatically enables emmet.
Wait though – so the model binding calls through into the DB as well, via Eloquent? That’s cool out of the box, but I hope it’s tweakable. Say e.g. I want to use Doctrine. And also, I want the model binding more on form input.
Laravel has model binding too. Sweeeeet.
Use of strings for controller methods is a bit of a downside, but that’s part of the nature of PHP I guess. And maybe it will have its upsides too (i.e. building a string to determine which controller/method). We’ll see.
php artisan tinker – that is bloody fantastic.
Absolutely loving laravel so far. All the nice architectural features of MVC I was familiar with from ASP.NET MVC, along with all the handy CLI and framework tools you’d get with rails or django.
Some helpful instructions here https://laravel-news.com/valet-for-ubuntu-linux, but I got an error during valet install trying to install nginx – think I’ll leave it for now.
Hmm, maybe. Seems to require use of nginx which I’m not familiar with. Could be a good time to learn though.
OK, so is it worth trying to get Valet set up on Linux?