AdonisJS / Lucid
Lucid is AdonisJS' Object Relational Mapping (ORM). It's a first-party package that follows the active record pattern. With it you can easily perform CRUD operations, add database hooks, normalize data, and so much more.
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What To Know Before Altering Your Database with Migrations
In this lesson, we'll discuss two different flows you can use to alter your database. One, when working completely locally and another when a migration has already been executed on your production database.
Migrations & Understanding the Flow of Migrations
In this lesson, we'll learn all about migrations, what they are, how they're used, and how they're tracked. We'll also learn about the flow of migrations and how they work similarly to a timeline.
Introducing, Installing, and Configuring Lucid ORM
In this lesson, we'll learn about Lucid ORM; its capabilities, Ace CLI commands, and the difference between it and the Database module. We'll then install and configure it within our project.
How To Do Multi Model Authentication with AdonisJS and Lucid ORM
In this lesson, we'll learn how to set up multi-model authentication using a User and Admin model with AdonisJS and Lucid ORM.
Comment Likes & Unlikes
In this stream, we'll be adding the ability to like and unlike a comment on the new upcoming Jagr.Co site, built with AdonisJS.
How To Add A Custom Method to the Model Query Builder in AdonisJS
In this lesson, we'll learn how to define a macro for the Model Query Builder within an AdonisJS project to provide a new method onto all our Model's Query Builder.
Building A Comment System
In this stream, we focused on building a comment system that allowed infinitely nestable responses. It's all done server-side too, so it's SEO friendly!
How To Serialize All AdonisJS Lucid Model Properties As Camel Case
In this lesson, we'll learn how to use Naming Strategies in AdonisJS to alter the serialization behavior for all our model properties from snake case to camel case.
AdonisJS Authentication in 15 Minutes
We'll be creating a new AdonisJS project and adding authentication to it within 15 minutes. You'll be able to logout, register, and login with either your username or email.
Rebuilding Jagr.Co, Adding Posts & SubCollections to Collections
In this stream, we focus on adding the ability to add posts and subcollections to a collection.
Rebuilding Jagr.Co, Post, Collection, & Taxonomy Models
In this stream, we focus on setting up the models and migrations for the Collection and Taxonomy models and tables. We set up their relationships and get the Collection CRUD operations setup
Rebuilding Jagr.Co, Password Reset & Account Locking
In this livestream, we'll add a system to lock users' accounts after so many bad login attempts and we'll also add in the password reset flow.
Rebuilding Jagr.Co, Username Sign In & Post CRUD
In this livestream we cover adding the ability to sign in using either a username or email address. We also dig into setting up the ability to create, read, update, and delete our posts.
Getting Data by the User's Timezone with Luxon's DateTime
In this lesson, we'll learn how we can use the user's current time zone to create, update, or query time-sensitive information in AdonisJS using Luxon's DateTime object.
Rebuilding Jagr.Co, Start & Auth
In this livestream we create a new project, install and configure the Lucid and Auth packages. Define our migrations and model schema. And hammer down basic authentication.
Project Setup & Creating Dummy Data
In this lesson, we'll be setting up our project with fake data using a Model Factory and a Seeder. We'll also set up our initial list of posts so that we're all set and squared away to cover
Let's Learn Adonis 5: Writing Reusable Queries with Query Scopes
In this lesson, we'll learn how we can extract repetitive query builder statements into reusable query scopes as a way to keep our codebase easy to maintain.
Let's Learn Adonis 5: Querying, Checking Existence, and Aggregating Relationships
In this lesson we'll learn how to query relationships, determine if a relationship exists, and how to aggregate relationship data.
Let's Learn Adonis 5: The Query Builder
In this lesson we'll be focusing specifically on the query builder. We'll discuss how we can filter down data, order, limit, and aggregate our data.
Let's Learn Adonis 5: Creating Data & Relationships Records
In this lesson, we learn about conditional inserts and how to reach through to relationships to create relationships and related records.
Let's Learn Adonis 5: Intro to Creating, Reading, Updating, and Deleting (CRUD)
In this lesson, we'll learn the two different modules Adonis' Lucid provides us to communicate with our database. We'll then introduce basic CRUD operations using these modules.
Let's Learn Adonis 5: Defining Model Relationships
In this lesson, we'll learn about the different types of database relationships, how Adonis supports these relationship types, and how to define these relationships.
Let's Learn Adonis 5: Intro to Models
This lesson is all about models. We'll learn what they are, how to define them, what they're used for, and some of the extended capabilities they provide.
Let's Learn Adonis 5: Installing and Configuring Lucid
In this lesson, we'll be learning how to install and configure Lucid, Adonis' Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) system, within our application.
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