I've just discovered Lumen and @TaylorOtwell introduced it in a quick video. But.. I don't see any other tutorial on Lumen.
I'm very excited to see that we have Lumen as a good option to build super fast API's or workers. I'd really love to see some dedicated videos teaching Lumen and specifically workers and API development.
I am just getting started to learn more about community here at Laracasts but I know for one that I am very much in need of such a video series. And maybe other people will be interested in such those tutorials if published.
So please @JeffreyWay and @TaylorOtwell make a full series on workers/task handlers and another full series for API development with Lumen. I know there's incremental API series but it's mostly based on Laravel. So again, please help out.
And Laracasts community, in the mean time can you all please advice some videos on this topic.
Keep in mind lumen, a viable option, is intended for microservices not really for a full blown API.
By microservices I mean running scheduled tasks, pinging servers (actually what he created if for in envoyer), generating reports etc. generally tasks that your main app might not need to deal with while keeping it in a separate environment to run its tasks with limited resources as even if it Uses 100% CPU it won't affect your man app. Taylor has tweeted if your not sure use Laravel.
I'm pretty new to Lumen, but not to PHP and coding. Lumen is a really nice framework for developing services.
I sat down with the Laravel 5.4 videos here on the site as I worked through my simple, then complex, Lumen applications. The thing of it is, Lumen is a subset of Laravel, so what @JeffreyWay teaches us about Laravel applies equally to Lumen, at least for the parts that are actually in Lumen.
Pretty much, everything but the Views, as far as I've seen from the intersection of my code and the Laravel 5.4 videos. It's probably deeper and more complicated than that, but if you use the Laravel 5.4 videos to understand routing and controllers and models and migrations, you'll be ready to produce something useful with Lumen.
An API screencast would be very welcome, the one that is already on Laracasts is getting a bit dated. Also, as some folks are getting to know Laracasts through Vue.js intro course, it would be a good gateway drug to get them to switch to a Laracasts membership?
As Lumen API can easily be upgraded to Laravel, maybe even a Lumen course with 1 or 2 of the end videos dedicated to Lumen-to-Laravel migration would be great.
