ColdBox: From Zero to Hero

In this workshop you will be introduced to the latest version of the most popular CFML MVC framework; ColdBox 6. We will go over the basics of installation, templating and configuration to the most advanced features.

Prerequisites :

Latest CommandBox CLI (You don’t need to know how to use it.)

– MySQL GUI

–A local database server – We will be using MySQL 5.7 in the course. MAKE SURE IT IS 5.7. You can start a local database service with docker using the following command if needed. You can then stop and start the database server with ‘docker stop soapbox‘ and ‘docker start soapbox‘.

This course will focus on building a real twitter clone; SoapBox, based on different concepts and tool methodologies. We will use ColdBox 6 features, including Behavior Driven Development (BDD) testing and leveraging several ForgeBox modules.

1. Course Introduction – Introductions – Software Pre–Requisites – Course Expectations 2. App Skeleton – Scaffold a ColdBox Template using CommandBox – Build and configure the Test Harness – Build and configure Test Runners – CommandBox Test Watchers 3. Intro to ColdBox MVC – ColdBox.cfc Intro – Development Settings – Discovering application router – Handlers – What is the Request Context – Views/Layouts by convention – Reigniting your application 4. Layouts – Create a bootstrap theme layout for our app 5. Database Migrations – Intro to Migrations – Installation of migration modules – Migration Commands – Intro to CommandBox Environment Variables – Configure our environment variables – Creating and running our first migration – Configure application and test harness for database access – Setup Test Harness and Base Spec 6. Intro to Models – Scaffold a UserService – Add our list story to our integration test – Implement the list() method to retrieve all users – Inject our UserService into our Main Handler – Call the list() method from our Main Handler and dump the data – Access the data returned from your main.index view. 7. Building the Registration Flow – Create the registration spec – Install bcrypt – Write the registration code as a ColdBox resource with appropriate spec and model methods 8. Login & Logout Flow – Install cbmessagebox – Create the specs – Create routes – Create the User Sessions handler – Create the user login screen – Install cbauth – Scaffold a User model – Update User Service for cbauth usage – Update specs for login/logout actions – Update handlers for login/logout actions – Update layouts for login usage – Update spec for registration with auto–login – Create auto–login with registration – Customize Messagebox – Leverage Messagebox for messages 9. Rants What we will do: – Create new migration for rants – Scaffold a rant resource – Update the resource route – Update the Rant object – Update the Rantservice – Create the basic unit tests for both and talk about pragmatism of unit test vs bdd – Build and Test the CRUD setup. – Change application default event to the rants – Update the main layout for adding a rant 10. Security – Installing cbsecurity – Create the security rules – Update the User Service for user validation – Confirm security 11. View User Rants – Create the spec for the profile page – Add routes for the profile – Update the rant service to get rants per user – Create the handler – Create a reusable viewlet for our rants 12. Add Rant Actions – Create the migrations for bumps and poops – Scaffold a Reaction Service for the actions – Update Rant object for reactions – Update Tests – Update the rant viewlet – Learn about Wirebox Convention vs Configuration 13. Make Reactions Functional – Update the viewlet – Showcase HTML Helper and its usages – Create spec for tracking bumps in the User and ReactionService – Create the get reaction methods in the reaction service – Create the hasReaction methods in the user – Create new routes and handlers – Create the integration tests – Implement the handlers