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Re-creating Booking.com API with Laravel and PHPUnit

Build a Booking.com-style API with Laravel covering property management, apartment/room search with geo-location, facilities, and booking systems. All functionality covered by comprehensive PHPUnit tests.

23 lessons

3 h 44 min read

Apr 2023

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Course Curriculum

1 Users and Roles

Roles/Permissions Structure: Owner/User

Profile Fields Structure

2 Properties and Apartments

Countries, Cities, Geographical Objects

Search for Property by City or GeoObject

Apartment Search by Number of Guests

Show Apartment Size, Type and Beds

Optimize Search JSON with API Resources

3 Facilities

Facility Structure: Show Property Details

Show Facilities in Apartment Details

Filter Properties by Most Popular Facilities

4 Apartment Bookings

"Unplanned" Bug; Fixing Limitation Query

Property Photos: Upload and Show URLs

Apartment Prices per Calendar Days

Make Bookings and View/Cancel Them

Ratings: Order/Show in Search Results

5 Performance Optimizations

Search Results Pagination

Seeding Big(ger) Data with Optimizations

Optimizing Search Endpoint

6 Improving Automated Tests: TDD and Pest

Feature to Unit Test with TDD and Service

Tests "Cleanup" with Factories

Migrating PHPUnit Tests to Pest

Using More Pest Features

7 Bonus Lessons

Generate API Documentation with Scribe

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