Not so long ago I created a simple running tracker – Running Time that was build on Laravel and Vue as a tutorial to build Single Page Applications. It turned out to be quite helpful learning app for many people. Now I decided to get to know React Native a bit more and in the process I created an app that uses that same Laravel API backend.

This mobile App is quite simple it has authentication flow with register and login pages. Main screen with three tabs, “Dashboard”, “Entries” and “Profile”.

Here is more detailed list of features:

• Simple and clean code
• Redux with redux-thunk
• Auth flow: login and registration
• Dashboard tab with panels and charts
• Entries list tab
• Add / edit entry
• Infinite scroll
• Pull to refresh
• Profile tab: update profile

The app is free to use and modify in any way and has MIT license.

Open sources GitHub. Install App from Play Market.

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Github: https://github.com/vedmant/laravel-shortcodes

Build powerful and simple layouts using shortcodes in the content or views like this:

[b]Bold text[/b]
[row]
  [col md=8]
     [posts_list types="post,gallery" show_tags="yes"]
  [/col]
  [col md=4]
     [poll id="1"]
     [user_info username="test_user" website="mywebsite.com" active="yes"]
     [last_free_post title="Free Posts"]
  [/col]
[/row]

Installation

Via Composer

$ composer require vedmant/laravel-shortcodes

This package supports Laravel Auto-Discover and will be discovered automatically.

For Laravel version before 5.5 please add the Vedmant\LaravelShortcodes\LaravelShortcodesServiceProvider::class to the providers array in config/app.php. And optionally ‘Shortcodes’ => Vedmant\LaravelShortcodes\Facades\Shortcodes::class, to aliases.

Configuraton

Publish configuration.

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=shortcodes

Usage

Shortcode class

Shortcode class should extend abstract \Vedmant\LaravelShortcodes\Shortcode class.

This packages adds make:shortcode artisan command:

php artisan make:shortcode PostsListShortcode

It will generate a shortcode class in the app/Shortcodes folder by default.

Register shortcodes

You can use AppServiceProvider boot method to register all needed shortcodes.

Using shortcode class:

Shortcodes::add('b', BShortcode::class);

Using shortcode classes in array, preferable for lots of shortcodes:

Shortcodes::add([
   'a' => AShortcode::class,
   'b' => BShortcode::class,
]);

Using closure:

Shortcodes::add('test', function ($atts, $content, $tag, $manager) {
   return new HtmlString('<strong>some test shortcode</strong>');
});

Rendering shortcodes

By default this packages extends View to parse all shortcodes during views rendering. This feature can be disabled in the config file.

Also to enable / disable rendering shortcodes for specific view you can use:

view('some-view')->withShortcodes(); // Or view('some-view')->withoutShortcodes();

To render shortcodes manually use:

{{ Shortcodes::render('[b]bold[/b]') }}

Shared attributes

YOccasionally, you may need to share a piece of data with all shortcodes that are rendered by your application. You may do so using the shortode facade’s share method. Typically, you should place calls to share in the controller, or within a service provider’s boot method.

Shortcodes::share('post', $post);

Then you can get share attributes in the shortcode class:

$post = $this->shared('post'); $allShared = $this->shared();

Comma separated values (array attributes)

If you need to pass an array to a shortcode, you can pass values separated by comma:

[posts_list ids="1,2,3"]

Then in render function you can parse this attribute using build in method:

$ids = $this->parseCommaSeparated($atts['ids']);

Edit configuration file as needed.

Integration with Laravel Debugbar

This packages supports Laravel Debugbar. Integration can be disabled in the config file if needed.

This project is fully free to use for any purpose and licensed under MIT License.

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And the result is My Little Bitcoin – a simple cryptocurrency implementation on JavaScript in just about 650 lines of code (without comments and client). It also includes WEB GUI written on Vue.js where you can send coins and explore blockchain.

The structure

The project is based on Node.js and has following basic structure:

1. Library – consist of functions to help handle crypto currency in a simplest way
2. Store – this in-memory storage for blockchain, wallets, mempool and few other things
3. Miner – this a worker that adds new blocks to the chain
4. Peers – simple peer-to-peer blockchain synchronization implementation
5. Server – web server that serves data for our front end GUI, includes API and web sockets

The chain

The structure of the chain is the simplest possible.

Block structure is following:

{
  index, // Block index
  prevHash, // Hash of the previous block
  time, // Current block timestamp
  transactions, // List of transactions, included into the block
  nonce, // Nonce, required for proof of work protocol
  hash, // Current block hash
}

Transaction structure is following:

{
  id, // Transaction unique id
  time, // Transaction timestamp
  hash, // Transaction hash
  reward, // Boolean to mark mining reward transaction
  inputs, // List of inputs in the transaction
  outputs, // List of outputs in transaction
  address, // Transaction is limited to only one input address for simplicity
  hash, // Transaction hash
  signature, // Transaction hash signature
}

And following inputs and outputs structure:

// Input
{
  tx, // Points to transaction of referenced output
  index, // Index of the output in the referenced transaction
  amount, // Amount of the referenced output
  address, // Address of the referenced output and also public key
  signature, // Signature, signed by private key and can be verified by included public key
}
// Output
{
  index, // Output index in current transaction
  amount, // Amount of the output
  address, // Address of the wallet (public key)
}

For demo purpose I created special mode that disables peer-to-peer module, reduces proof of work difficulty and adds one minute block timeout.

Demo

Check sources here: GitHub Link

This implementation is pretty naive and suitable only for studying purpose.

This project is fully free to use for any purpose and licensed under MIT License.

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Today I decided to make it public and share my experience with others.

The project is basically a simple Running Tracker, where you can add your running entries and see your performance during some period of time.

Main features

• Fully separate Backend and Frontend
• Authentication based on Laravel Passport
• List pages with filters and CRUD editing
• Admin panel
• Simple widgets
• Simple reports
• Full Phpunit test coverage
• Sample E2E tests using Nightwatch and Cypress

Includes

• Laravel Passport API Authentication
• API Docs Gerator Laravel API Documentation Generator
• Laravel DebugBar Debug bar for Laravel
• Vue.js The Progressive JavaScript Framework
• Vuex State management pattern + library for Vue.js
• Vue-Router Router library for Vue.js

Other Features

• Front page
• Authentication (registration, login, logout, throttle)
• Users roles: administrator (all access), manager (manage records)
• User dashborad with widgets and charts
• Entries list with filter by date (list, show, edit, delete, create)
• Report page with chart
• User profile page
• Admin dashboard with widgets
• Users admin (list, show, edit, delete, create)
• Entries admin (list, show, edit, delete, create)
• Global loader for all requests with small delay

GitHub Link

Demo

Use login: user@gmail.com and password: 123456

This project is fully free to use for any purpose and licenced under MIT License.

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