Labs

Labs are hands-on coding projects that you build along with Tonya as she explains the code, concepts, and thought processes behind it. You can use the labs to further your code knowledge or to use right in your projects. Each lab ties into the Docx to ensure you have the information you need.

Each lab is designed to further your understanding and mastery of code. You learn more about how to think about its construction, quality, maintainability, programmatic and logical thought, and problem-solving. While you may be building a specific thing, Tonya presents the why of it to make it adaptable far beyond that specific implementation, thereby giving you the means to make it your own, in any context.

16 Videos 02:44:38 Runtime February 25, 2018

Local Development Environment Setup for Mac

Your local web development environment is critical to your ability to efficiently produce high quality and well-tested software projects. This environment should be incredibly easy to use. It should support the way you work, making you better and faster while demanding very little of your time. In this hands-on lab, you will setup your local web development environment. It will include version control with Git, helper apps, package managers (Composer, Node, and npm), task runner with Gulp, local webserver, and a professional editor.

0 Videos Runtime February 19, 2018

Behind the Scenes of Redefining a Function

In the last episode, we talked about the philosophy of unit testing, i.e. testing in isolation without the function’s dependencies. In order to test in isolation, we need to know what each dependent function will do within the context of that test (i.e. given conditions) and then write a function that redefines the original in order to force it to do what it should. In this episode, you and I will dive into what is happening between the scenes in the PHP internals of user-defined names and memory). I’ll give you an overview to help you visualize how Brain Monkey[…]

0 Videos Runtime February 19, 2018

The Problem – Why We Need to Simulate

Let’s explore both the philosophy of unit testing (i.e. testing in isolation) and the problem we face of redefining dependent functions in order to achieve a pure unit test.

0 Videos Runtime February 8, 2018

Integration Bootstrap – Defining Constants

Notes | Transcript | Code | Playlist Notes Next, we need to define the constants we’ll need as the baseline for directory locations. Transcript Code

0 Videos Runtime February 8, 2018

Integration Bootstrap – Register Theme & Load

Notes | Transcript | Code | Playlist Notes We’re almost done with the bootstrap file. Whew! Right? In this episode, you and I will finish it. We need to: Load the WordPress tests suite’s includes/bootstrap.php file. Register a callback to the tests “theme_setup” event. When that event fires, we want to define where our themes directory is and switch the default theme to our theme. Finally, let’s load WordPress’ testing suite. Transcript Code