Dashboard (PHP Leuven)

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1. Creating a dashboard
   using Laravel ,
   Vue and Pusher
   

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2. About me
   Freek Van der Herten
   Partner & developer at SPATIE
   @freekmurze
   https://murze.be
   

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3. About me
   ohdear.app
   

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4. About me
   fullstackbelgium.be
   

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5. About me
   fullstackeurope.com
   

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6. Since 2003
   Websites, applications and webshops
   Team
   7 developers, 1 manager
   Specialization
   Laravel development
   

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7. OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
   

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8. https://spatie.be/open-source
   

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9. Open source software
   ± 200 public repositories on GitHub
   ± 18 000 000 downloads total
   ± 1 500 000 downloads a month
   A lot of benefits: learning, writing quality documentation and
   tests, showing the quality of our work, eating our own dogfood
   https://murze.be/the-story-behind-our-open-source-efforts
   

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10. WE ❤ POSTCARDS
    

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11. Spatie

    Samberstraat 69D
    2060 Antwerp

    Belgium
    

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29. https://github.com/spatie/dashboard.spatie.be
    

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30. HIGH LEVEL OVERVIEW
    

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31. The dashboard is a single HTML page
    Displayed by a full screen browser
    Without full page reload
    Each tile wil be updated by JavaScript
    Each tile has it’s own update frequency
    In short
    

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32. Technology stack
    Laravel Pusher Vue.js
    

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33. Laravel 5.6
    Render the initial page
    Fetch data from external API’s (scheduled)
    Broadcast events when new data has arrived
    Laravel
    

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34. spatie/laravel-twitter-streaming-api
    spatie/laravel-google-calendar
    spatie/last-fm-now-playing
    spatie/packagist-api
    knplabs/github-api
    Laravel
    

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35. Provides full-duplex communication channels over a single TCP
    connection
    Transporting events from server to the browser
    In realtime
    Secure
    Paid service
    Pusher
    

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36. WebSockets
    Transporting events from server to the browser
    In realtime
    Secure
    Paid service
    Pusher
    

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37. Transporting events from server to the browser
    In realtime
    Secure
    Paid service
    Pusher
    Magic
    

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38. Easy to learn JS Framework
    Each tile is a component
    Listen for incoming events with Laravel Echo
    Update the tile
    Vue.js
    

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40. DEMO
    

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41. Grid system
    The clock tile
    The Packagist tile
    The Twitter tile
    Topics
    

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42. There will be 

    some live coding
    We’ll use 

    an internet connection
    
    

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43. DISPLAYING ON A TV
    

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44. Raspberry Pi 2
    

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45. Raspberry Pi 2
    Powered by the USB port from the TV
    Uses Raspbian Jessie
    Boots into Chromium 56 in fullscreen mode
    Setup
    

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46. TRY IT OUT YOURSELF
    

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47. Source code
    https://github.com/spatie/dashboard.spatie.be
    Blog post
    https://murze.be/2017/06/building-realtime-dashboard-powered-
    laravel-vue-2017-edition/
    Documentation
    

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48. WRAPPING UP
    

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49. Credits
    Willem Van Bockstal
    @willemvbockstal
    Looks + grid system
    Sebastian De Deyne
    @sebdedeyne
    Scrutinising + JS wizardry
    

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50. Thank you!
    https://speakerdeck.com/freekmurze/dashboard-php-leuven
    https://spatie.be/open-source
    https://murze.be
    https://ohdear.app
    https://fullstackeurope.com
    

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51. QUESTIONS?
    

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