Level 5
How about Valet or Security? Congrats on the new baby btw!
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Level 59
What forum categories are missing here?
Hey, everyone -
I'd like to put some work into the forum this week. In terms of forum categories, what do you think is missing?
I just added a new "Guides" section. This is for, not questions, but general mini-tutorials. I've already moved over a handful of threads. Feel free to do the same. Just make sure that it's an actual tutorial/guide that shows others how to accomplish something.
Anyways, what other categories do we need?
Level 3
Something for interface design maybe?
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Level 3
I like the idea of something like interface design or UX. But I'd also like something like tooling. Tools constantly change and it would be nice to have a category exclusively for it since it doesn't really fit anywhere else. Things like grunt, gulp, browserify, webpack, babel, etc. could be posted in there.
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Level 7
@JeffreyWay a database design category would be great.
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Level 20
@JeffreyWay an api category dealing with JWT, Oauth, public apis, etc.
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Level 47
Some ideas off the top of my head:
- Blade
- php (non-Laravel related)
- Front End (html, css, javascript)
- Some kind of category for questions about design decisions/best practices
While were talking about forum categories, I think the Request category should have its name changed. Most people seem to think its a category for form requests rather than Laracast lesson requests.
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Level 50
I would like to see
- JavaScript (for all non-Vue topics)
- and/or Front End/Interface (for html, css, javascript)
- Packages (for development and help)
- Off-topic (for cute animal pictures ☺)
I also agree with @zachleigh that the Request category could be named differently to be more clear.
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Level 50
I think maybe 'guides' and 'tips' could be merged? Maybe some kind of 'developer life' or 'idle thoughts' topic? Kind of like where you'd post the things you have in the Snippets podcast?
Level 47
+1 for a packages category. There seem to be a lot of questions about them.
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Level 46
Architecture
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Level 10
I haven't seen the 404 errors for a while now, however whenever I try to make a post it redirects me to the front page and say "please no spam". Don't know if I have spammed or re-captcha is doing something wrong on slow connections.
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Level 20
I would certainly use "Code review" category.
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Level 47
That category already exists...
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Level 6
Database (in general) - for setting up connections, writing raw queries, multi-tenancy, backups, performance etc
Cloud (maybe?). I'm using AWS and I'm seeing people wanting to save to S3 or connect to Redis.
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Level 53
- Front End / JavaScript
- Databases
- PHP
- User Experience Design
- User Interface Design
I'll add more if I think of something else.
Level 33
+1 for Front End / JavaScript!
Level 2
native PHP and javascript .
Level 5
Laravel Jobs category through laracasts
Level 33
I'd add a "Laravel beginner" section, for all the basic questions that people often don't know where to post.
Level 75
Various stuff on deploy and getting project on production server, including some of the shared host let's face it some people will and do use shared host. Also @JeffreyWay look at this post https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/laravel/upload-project-laravel?page=1 The answer by @Qlic is a good one, works real good.
Level 15
Homestead or, more generally, Dev Environments would probably be good. Category descriptions would probably help as well.
It would also be nice if posters were more strongly encouraged to mark a question as answered so that it's easier to help those who are still having issues. I think a lot of unanswered questions get passed over after receiving a reply or two.
Level 10
And an option to select a Laravel version, at least in some categories.
Level 14
I'd love to see some sort Principles or Architecture category that simply covers how certain concepts should be represented in Laravel/Lumen/Spark.
This would cover concepts like Presenters, Value Objects, Wrappers, and other generic concepts that can be used for creating clean code.
Level 53
Theory category/channel would be a nice place to discuss everything about the programming theory like principles, design patterns, Object Oriented Design, some of the concepts of Domain Driven Design etc.
Level 5
tutorials category, where developer will teach what ever they know that may be a simple crud with laravel and ajax
Level 39
+1 on the "Selecting Laravel Version". Maybe have it in bold next to forum title.
Level 22
Just an idea, no idea if its good:
If you add more categories then it might be a good idea to group some categories together as well? So overview pages like "Everything" page that is present now which can be drilled down to something very specific.
e.g.
- Tooling
- Envoyer
- Elixir
- Forge
- Spark
On the tooling page itsself you see topics of all categories, but when you want to read about Elixir specificly you can filter that out.
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