Lumen in 5 minutes - learnt @hack24

A description of laravel's lumen microframework which i looked at when at nottingham hackathon @hacktwentyfour

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1. A quick walk around Lumen > a quick tour of lumen composer require @sdh100shaun & 5 mins learnt at @Hack24
2. Hacks like meetups are great place to learn things - like a mouse is hard to spot on a 4K screen
3. Setting up - install > a quick tour of lumen composer based of course - can use create- project composer global require "laravel/lumen-installer=~1.0" then lumen new <project name> service
4. Project Structure - Laravel 5 > a Laravel 5 esk structure missing some folders - database / resources etc as lightweight but core app the same service
5. Project Structure - Laravel 5 > a Laravel 5 esk structure missing some folders - database / resources etc as lightweight but core app the same service
6. Project Structure - Laravel 5 like > a Laravel 5 esk structure missing some folders - database / resources etc as lightweight but core app the same service
7. Things you will probably want to do > starting your project you will probably want environmental configuration so in bootstrap/app.php - uncomment // Dotenv::load (__DIR__.'/../'); and rename .env.example to .env
8. Things you will probably want to do > starting your project it’s likely a micro-service you will probably want to do some request/response interaction (api-key, filtering , content negotiation,csrf) so turn on middleware - these things can live here // $app->routeMiddleware([]); guess how - becoming a pattern right
9. Need db or cache or queue? > must store all the things and keep it fast Need a db , cache or queue php artisan make database - sets up folder structure with seeds, migrations (enable eloquent in app if required) Queuing ready just enable in config , pull package and write jobs in app/jobs Cache - just use the cache-driver setting in .env
10. set up a route > in HTTP/routes.php similar to Laravel not exactly though can be inline $app->get('{path:.*}', function($path) { echo 'url is ' . $path; }); can be all done in line or can point to controller of course
11. So why lumen - speed & familiarity > does it seem fast ? Yes .. In benchmarks - only phalcon can beat it http://taylorotwell.com/how-lumen-is- benchmarked/ • Silex: 950 requests per second • Slim: 1250 requests per second • Lumen: 1700 requests per second Premature optimisation is important right !!
12. extra - blooper reel > things that caught me out in sleep deprived state Lumen is following laravel versioning - so all ready on 5.0.x I thought blade is not out of the box cos I could not get - index.blade.php to work - turns out {{ HTML:: script('resources/js/bootstrap.min.js') }} in view when html no longer in L5 core not good need to enable facades for schema::create to work
13. extra - blooper reel > things that caught me out in sleep deprived state
14. A quick walk around Lumen > a quick tour of lumen Thank you