Simple API_Token Auth for VueJS Components and Laravel

For those non Passport moments just a simple site that has VueJS Components that need to access routes with authentication in place. Thanks to https://pineco.de/vue-components-laravel-based-apis/ https://andrew.cool/blog/64/How-to-use-API-tokens-for-authentication-in-Laravel-5-2 Route File routes/api.php Route::get('/trigger_contacts', function (Request $request) { \Log::info("Triggering Contacts"); return response()->json(null, 200); })->middleware('auth:api'); This will not work out of the box, you will get a 401. Let’s plug some things in. Blade My main resources/views/layouts/app.blade.php <script> window.Laravel = {!! json_encode([ "apiToken" => auth()->user()->api_token ?

June 27, 2018 Read
Dusk Screenshots to S3 of Failing tests

I can be really annoying to troubleshoot a failed test in Dusk when using CI systems. What I ended up doing was setting up my project to send these files to S3 on fail. Here are the steps Setup You App This is just S3 storage so make sure you have a bucket and a folder in the bucket to write to. Basically for AWS you make an IAM with a key and secret and let it read/write to this folder.

June 26, 2018 Read
Windows Dev Box Try 2 2018

Going to list somethings as I go. The Mac, in spite of Apple, is a great developer experience, here is to hoping the Windows, with the help of Microsoft, grows to be better and better as the improve it via user feedback to make it a great development box. Links This started it all https://char.gd/blog/2017/how-to-set-up-the-perfect-modern-dev-environment-on-windows Webdev on Windows with WSL and VS Code NPM and Composer install take a long time Some of this is the Windowsantimalware running.

June 11, 2018 Read
Laravel Queue Restart and 'Why are my changes not showing up'

Just a note to self and others who have suffered this. If you are running queues locally, for what ever reason, then any changes you make in code you need to restart your queue daemon. php artisan queue:restart This will cause the daemon to look at a timestamp and restart if that is newer than before “e.g. you ran the above. And this will force the in memory process to update itself from the latest code base.

May 20, 2018 Read
Lambda and Github Webhooks

Related to https://developer.github.com/webhooks/ and pushing data to Lambda AWS. I can check the token by just having this check in my handler. const crypto = require('crypto'); exports.handler = (event, context, callback) => { let headers = event.headers; let body = event.body; if (typeof body === 'object') { body = JSON.stringify(event.body); } let github_event = headers['X-GitHub-Event']; if ( github_event === undefined || typeof github_event !== 'string' || github_event.length < 1 ) { callback(null, { statusCode: 400, body: 'Missing X-GitHub-Event' }); return; } let github_signature = headers['X-Hub-Signature']; if ( github_signature === undefined || typeof github_signature !

May 8, 2018 Read
Query Strings and VueJS

Quick way to make the url reflect the query string so the user can share the url and filters. This is component based VueJS building so not an SPA But I still install "vue-router": "^3.0.1" And load it import VueRouter from 'vue-router'; Vue.use(VueRouter); The on the component I set a watch on the router. watch: { $route(to, from) { this.setModelFromQueryString(); this.search(); } }, In this case it will set the query strings then trigger the “search” to load the data into the page.

May 8, 2018 Read
Debugging AWS SAM

This took a few to get just right, for one the command needs to be in the correct order sam local invoke --event fixtures/latest_not_working.json -d 5858 GithubPushes From here it gave me the output I was looking for: sam local invoke --event fixtures/latest_not_working.json -d 5858 GithubPushes 2018/05/07 06:49:46 Successfully parsed template.yaml 2018/05/07 06:49:46 Connected to Docker 1.37 2018/05/07 06:49:46 Fetching lambci/lambda:nodejs8.10 image for nodejs8.10 runtime... nodejs8.10: Pulling from lambci/lambda Digest: sha256:a53fceb64e2339332dbc4117be8ec270f46fbe28d564499f1cf73035a1c5854e Status: Image is up to date for lambci/lambda:nodejs8.

May 7, 2018 Read
wip Fargate and Laravel

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April 11, 2018 Read
Getting Started with Orchestra Testbench for Laravel Package Development

The goal of this article will allow one to setup a stand alone package working with it’s own tests and has access to all of the normal Laravel workflows outside of Laravel. So you can build it using the easier conventions and helpers Laravel offers. Since my work will include database usage I will grab both packages: composer require --dev "orchestra/testbench:<=3.5" "orchestra/database:v3.5.0" I will setup my composer.json after this as such:

April 1, 2018 Read
BrowserSync and Laravel

Quick reminder to take advantage of this amazing feature https://laravel.com/docs/5.6/mix#browsersync-reloading No more reloading your browser. yarn add browser-sync --dev then to your webpack.mix.js e.g. the domain of the site you are working on. mix.browserSync('foo.test'); finally yarn run watch Note turn off sourceMaps when running this else it can be kinda slow

March 15, 2018 Read
GroupBy not Sorting by latest

Just to make this easy to find. I had a report to write which had numerous daily rows of the same related model data. So in this cause I was tracking servers and security reports. My reports where daily like this id server_id failed type 1 1 1 security 2 1 1 testing 3 1 0 testing But a groupBy here on server_id would return ID 1 so it would appear as if it was still failing.

March 15, 2018 Read
Troubleshoot Laravel Socialite and Github login

This has driven me mad too many times. Basically you will get very little feedback if there is any issue getting the token from Github. The problem is in this method. public function user() { if ($this->hasInvalidState()) { throw new InvalidStateException; } $response = $this->getAccessTokenResponse($this->getCode()); $user = $this->mapUserToObject($this->getUserByToken( $token = Arr::get($response, 'access_token') )); return $user->setToken($token) ->setRefreshToken(Arr::get($response, 'refresh_token')) ->setExpiresIn(Arr::get($response, 'expires_in')); } This is in the vendor/laravel/socialite/src/Two/AbstractProvider.php So for example my real error was:

March 4, 2018 Read