https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4ugSgGaCQ0

Colin Decarlo

How do I become a good developer?

• Gang of 4 Design Patterns - hard to understand
• Good ideas but not really for web development

The Adapter Pattern

• Sits between two components with incompatible interfaces
• Converts the messages
• Good to sit between external APIs to buffer from change.
• Adapter class implements Locator
• Bind in AppServiceProvider
• Tests for 3rd party API or API which communicates over network - make a Fake class.

The Strategy Pattern

• Me: Just use an interface for a family of classes, this forces them to use the same methods and makes them interchangeable.
• E.g. A stratery for parsing each type of record 20:21
• Determine which strategy (class) to use

The Factory Pattern

Embrace the backend - Caleb Porzio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQO4Xh1gMpY

API Development TJ Miller

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0xid2vS7Oo

Planning

• Formatting
• Versioning bad - Evolution good
• Documentation
• OpenAPI - used to be Swagger, used to document APIs.

Implementation

Laravel vs Lumen

Maybe not Lumen, only 25% quicker Start with Laravel - change when measurable pain

Middleware

Remove unused

Testing

Resource Responses

Authentication

• token guard - static token attatched to user

Bob Martin