Package Development & Open Sourcery

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1. PACKAGE DEVELOPMENT & OPEN SOURCERY LAGOS LARAVEL MEETUP @unicodeveloper
2. Who am I ?
3. • Full Stack Bearded Dude • Technical Trainer @ Andela • Blogs at goodheads.io • Twitter, Github and Instagram Handle @unicodeveloper
4. Where are we coming from? 1. PEAR 2. PHPCLASSES.ORG 3. SOURCEFORGE.NET
5. 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/
8. Principles to observe when building a package? 1. Keep It Simple - KISS 2. Test thoroughly 3. Write good documentation
9. • Make sure composer is installed • Run composer init and answer the questions accordingly
10. • Setup your Folder Structure • Setup Autoloading
11. • Create a github repo for the package & push to Git • Login to Packagist and submit the url to the Github repo
15. - Push again to Github and then come back to this page and update the package by clicking the Update button
16. • 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
17. 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
18. Nigerians I know that contribute to Open source • Ire Aderinokun https://github.com/ireade
19. Tunbosun Ayinla - https://github.com/tubiz Builds lots of Wordpress plugins
20. Prosper Otemuyiwa - https://github.com/unicodeveloper
21. Save Lives By Contributing To Open Source Today - @unicodeveloper
22. THE END!