Data Store – Project Setup

Before we start the project, you need to setup the project’s environment. You’ll use this environment and workflow throughout the series to plan, build, test, and validate the data store. You’ll fork the starter plugin, clone it to your local machine, run the starter test suite, and walk through the plugin’s architecture and setup.

What You’ll Be Doing

In this lab, you’ll be doing:

• Fork the starter plugin from GitHub
• Setup a locally hosted project using your favorite localhost app, such as Local by Flywheel, VVV, DesktopServer, etc.
• Clone your copy of the plugin to your local machine
• Install the plugin’s Composer packages
• Run the starter test suite
• Walk through the plugin’s architecture and setup

Prerequisites

You’ll want to have completed the Git Empowered series and especially these labs:

22 Episodes
02:46:31 Runtime

Git Contributing

Developers contribute. We work on teams and/or give our time to open source projects. In order to contribute, you need to be comfortable with git, GitHub, and the workflow process. In this hands-on coding, you will learn how to wire everything up, use branching, keep everything in sync and up-to-date, handle merge or commit issues, create issues, create pull requests (PR), and more. Let's git you contributing.

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20 Episodes
01:57:49 Runtime

Git Productive

Let's tame git. Let's create a rich set of commands and shortcuts that make sense and are intuitive. Let's build a set of scripts that are callable by a single command, such as `git uncommit` or `git rollback`, i.e. commands that wrap up repetitive tasks and automate them via a single command. In this hands-on coding lab, you'll build a rich collection of these commands via git aliases and bash scripting to git you more productive.

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See the list of prerequisites and suggestions on the series landing page.

Episodes

Total Lab Runtime: 00:46:51

• 1 Setup the Local Environmentpro 07:00
• 2 Fork and Clone Starter Pluginpro 08:07
• 3 Setup Local by Flywheel's Serverpro 05:14
• 4 Install Composer Packagespro 06:06
• 5 Run and Review the Starter Test Suitepro 10:21
• 6 Run and Review WPCSpro 04:07
• 7 Walk Through the Plugin's Codepro 05:56

What to Do Next?

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02:39:26 Runtime

Data Store – Planning the Requirements

Before we can build the data store, we need to understand what it is we need to build. In this lab, you'll think through each of the requirements, working to define what makes a store a store, how to interact with it, what functionality is needed, and conceptually how to achieve it, and then what approaches you'll employ in the series.

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Check out the Plugin Development Library for more hands-on labs, insights, Docx, and more.

Check out the series page for more labs: Data Store Series – Centralized, Persistent, & In-Memory PHP Storage Project