Simple Slides

Simple Slides is a responsive and text-first presentation tool that keeps your audience engaged, and is built with:

• Laravel
• Vue + TypeScript
• PostgreSQL

Presentations built with Simple Slides typically focus on:

• Prioritizing text-content
• Low amount of content per slide
• Many slides, and changing through slides quickly

To Install

Ideally, you should set an alias for the sail command, to make it much shorter to use:

alias sail='[ -f sail ] && sh sail || sh vendor/bin/sail'

Note: If you have run a Laravel Sail project before, you may have already created this alias.

• Locate the .env.example file in your project directory.
• Create a new file named .env in the same directory.
• Copy the entire content of the .env.example file and paste it into the newly created .env file.

Note: This file will hold your environment variables.

Run below commands in your terminal

composer install
sail npm install
sail artisan key:generate

This project uses Laravel Sail, which is basically a built-in Docker wrapper for Laravel applications. View their documentation for more details.

To Run

# In one terminal, to run the app:
sail up

# Then, in another to run the migrations and seeders (this command will end)
sail artisan migrate:fresh --seed

# Then, build, watch, and hot reload for front-end changes
sail npm run dev

To log in, use any of the following credentials (found in database/Seeders/DatabaseSeeder.php):

• Email: admin@example.com for an admin user, or test@example.com for a non-admin user.
• Password: Both accounts use password.

Autoformatting

Via Laravel pint, which is a code-formatter following Laravel's best practices. Note: This is not a linter.

# Laravel

sail pint

Linting

Linting on the back-end (e.g. Laravel) is done via larastan, which is a PHPStan wrapper for Laravel.

Linting on the front-end (e.g. Vue w/ Typescript) is done with vue-tsc, which is a first-party wrapper for Vue around tsc. See more here: https://vuejs.org/guide/typescript/overview

# Back-end (Laravel)
sail bin phpstan analyse

# Front-end (Vue)
sail npx vue-tsc

Running the Tests

Tests on the back-end (e.g. Laravel) are written using Pest, and are a mostly integration and end-to-end tests, with some unit tests sprinkled in. Currently there are no browser tests.

Tests on the front-end (e.g. Vue w/ Typescript) are written using vitest, along with some other test utilities like Vue Test Utils and Mock Service Worker.

# Back-end (Laravel)
sail artisan test

# Front-end (Vue)
sail npx vitest

To Generate Thumbnails for Presentations

This uses puppeteer and Browsershot, which requires some extra config on top of Laravel Sail. To configure this, you need to run the following commands:

sail root-shell ./docker/sail-extra.sh
sail npx puppeteer browsers install chrome

Recommended IDE Setup

• VS Code + Volar (and disable Vetur) + TypeScript Vue Plugin (Volar).

Type Support For .vue Imports in TS

TypeScript cannot handle type information for .vue imports by default, so we replace the tsc CLI with vue-tsc for type checking. In editors, we need TypeScript Vue Plugin (Volar) to make the TypeScript language service aware of .vue types.

If the standalone TypeScript plugin doesn't feel fast enough to you, Volar has also implemented a Take Over Mode that is more performant. You can enable it by the following steps:

1. Disable the built-in TypeScript Extension
   1. Run Extensions: Show Built-in Extensions from VSCode's command palette
   2. Find TypeScript and JavaScript Language Features, right click and select Disable (Workspace)
2. Reload the VSCode window by running Developer: Reload Window from the command palette.