PACKAGE DEVELOPMENT & OPEN SOURCERY LAGOS LARAVEL MEETUP @unicodeveloper 

Who am I ? 

● Full Stack Bearded Dude ● Technical Trainer @ Andela ● Blogs at goodheads.io ● Twitter, Github and Instagram Handle @unicodeveloper 

Where are we coming from? 1. PEAR 2. PHPCLASSES.ORG 3. SOURCEFORGE.NET 

Where are we now? Website: https://getcomposer.org/ Reusable PHP Classes and Packages are hosted on https: //packagist.org Reusable Laravel Packages can found on http://packalyst. com/ 

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Principles to observe when building a package? 1. Keep It Simple - KISS 2. Test thoroughly 3. Write good documentation 

● Make sure composer is installed ● Run composer init and answer the questions accordingly 

● Setup your Folder Structure ● Setup Autoloading 

● Create a github repo for the package & push to Git ● Login to Packagist and submit the url to the Github repo 

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- Push again to Github and then come back to this page and update the package by clicking the Update button 

● Integrate with Coveralls to have a badge show that shows test coverage ● Integrate with Travis or CirceCI to make sure it runs your tests and also attach the badge to the repo ● Integrate with Scrutinizer CI for Code Quality 

Why Should I contribute to Open Source? 1. You’ll be helping someone cut development time by half. 2. You’ll be making the world a better place 3. You’ll become a better programmer 4. You’ll build your reputation as a programmer 5. Opportunities abound 

Nigerians I know that contribute to Open source ● Ire Aderinokun https://github.com/ireade 

Tunbosun Ayinla - https://github.com/tubiz Builds lots of Wordpress plugins 

Prosper Otemuyiwa - https://github.com/unicodeveloper 

Save Lives By Contributing To Open Source Today - @unicodeveloper 

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