GeeH / twilio-laravel

Twilio Sample App Template

About

This is a GitHub template for creating other Twilio sample/template apps. It contains a variety of features that should ideally be included in every Twilio sample app. You can use GitHub's repository template functionality to create a copy of this.

Implementations in other languages:

.NET	Java	Python	PHP	Node
TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	Done

How it works

This application is only a barebones PHP application using Laravel. Whenever, possible we should be using this. However, if you are using a framework like Symfony, Lumen or similar that comes with their own standardized application structure, you should try to merge these by using the same README structure and test coverage, configuration etc. as this project.

Features

• PHP web server using Laravel
• Basic web user interface using Blade for templating and Bootstrap for UI
• Unit tests using PHPUnit
• End to End UI testing using Dusk
• Automated CI testing using GitHub Actions
• Linting and formatting using PHP Coding Standards Fixer
• Project specific environment variables using .env files.
• One click deploy buttons for Heroku.

How to use it

1. Create a copy using GitHub's repository template functionality
2. Update the README.md, composer.json and app.json with the respective values.
3. Build your app as necessary while making sure the tests pass.
4. Publish your app to GitHub

Set up

Requirements

• PHP >= 7.2.5 and composer
• Node.js
• A Twilio account - sign up

Twilio Account Settings

This application should give you a ready-made starting point for writing your own application. Before we begin, we need to collect all the config values we need to run the application:

Config Value	Description
Account Sid	Your primary Twilio account identifier - find this in the Console.
Auth Token	Used to authenticate - just like the above, you'll find this here.
Phone number	A Twilio phone number in E.164 format - you can get one here

Local development

After the above requirements have been met:

1. Clone this repository and cd into it

   git clone [e-mail]:twilio-labs/sample-template-laravel.git
   cd sample-template-laravel

2. Install PHP dependencies

   composer install

3. Generate application key

   php artisan key:generate

4. Set your environment variables

   cp .env.example .env

   See Twilio Account Settings to locate the necessary environment variables.

5. Install Node dependencies

   npm install 

6. Build the frontend assets

   npm run dev

7. Run the application

   php artisan serve

8. Navigate to http://localhost:8000

   That's it!

Unit and Integration Tests

You can run the Unit and Feature tests locally by typing:

php artisan test

End to End Tests

1. To run the Browser tests you first need to install the latest version of ChromeDriver for your OS

   php artisan dusk:chrome-driver

2. Copy the .env.dusk.testing to .env.dusk.local

   cp .env.dusk.testing .env.dusk.local

3. Then you can run the tests by typing:

   php artisan dusk

   Note: You need to have the dev server running or use php artisan dusk:serve instead

Cloud deployment

Additionally to trying out this application locally, you can deploy it to a variety of host services. Here is a small selection of them.

Please be aware that some of these might charge you for the usage or might make the source code for this application visible to the public. When in doubt research the respective hosting service first.

Service
Heroku

Resources

• GitHub's repository template functionality

Contributing

This template is open source and welcomes contributions. All contributions are subject to our Code of Conduct.

Visit the project on GitHub

License

MIT

Disclaimer

No warranty expressed or implied. Software is as is.