About Hurgada

Hurgada is a Laravel-powered web application for managing and publishing tourism content for Hurghada. It provides CRUD and interactive experiences around domain entities such as Attractions, Events, Blogs, Galleries, and user Favorites. The UI is rendered with Blade and progressively enhanced with Livewire for reactive, server-driven interactivity (e.g., favorites toggling and comments). Authentication and session flows are scaffolded with Laravel Breeze. Eloquent models, factories, and seeders back the data layer, with SQLite used by default for local development and easy switching to other RDBMS engines via environment configuration.

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Premium Partners

• Vehikl
• Tighten Co.
• Kirschbaum Development Group
• 64 Robots
• Curotec
• DevSquad
• Redberry
• Active Logic

Contributing

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Code of Conduct

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Security Vulnerabilities

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License

The Laravel framework is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.

Technologies Used

This project is a modern Laravel application leveraging a full-stack toolchain optimized for DX, performance, and maintainability.

• Runtime & Language

  • PHP: Modern PHP features (typed properties, enums, attributes) via PHP 8.x.
  • Composer: Dependency management with PSR-4 autoloading.

• Framework & Core Libraries

  • Laravel Framework: HTTP routing, IoC container, middleware, validation, events, and job queues. Key components in use:
    • Eloquent ORM: ActiveRecord-style models with factories/seeders (database/factories, database/seeders).
    • Migrations: Schema management via timestamped migration classes in database/migrations.
    • Queues: Config-driven queue abstraction; jobs table scaffolded for async workloads.
    • Caching & Session: PSR-16 cache and session drivers configurable via config/cache.php and config/session.php.
    • Filesystem: Flysystem v3 adapter with local disks for public and private storage (config/filesystems.php).

• Frontend Build & Styling

  • Vite: ESM-based bundling with hot module replacement; manifest-driven asset resolution in public/build.
  • Node Tooling: npm scripts for dev/build; resources/js as the entrypoint.
  • Tailwind CSS: Utility-first styling with tailwind.config.js and PostCSS pipeline (postcss.config.js).
  • PostCSS: Autoprefixer and Tailwind processing for CSS output.

• Reactive UI

  • Livewire: Server-driven reactive components for dynamic UI without bespoke SPA code. Components under app/Livewire with corresponding Blade views in resources/views/livewire.
  • Blade: Templating system with components in resources/views/components and page templates in resources/views/pages.

• Authentication & Scaffolding

  • Laravel Breeze: Minimal, modern auth scaffolding using Blade. Routes under routes/auth.php, views under resources/views/auth and resources/views/layouts.

• Database

  • SQLite (development): File-backed database database/database.sqlite for zero-config local development.
  • Easily switchable to MySQL/PostgreSQL via config/database.php and environment variables.

• Email & Notifications

  • Mail: Transport-agnostic mailer configured in config/mail.php.
  • Notifications: Channel-based notifications (mail, database, etc.) available per Laravel core.

• Testing

  • PHPUnit: Feature and unit tests under tests/Feature and tests/Unit; configuration in phpunit.xml.
  • Model Factories: Deterministic data generation for tests and seeders.

• Logging & Observability

  • Monolog via Laravel logging channels defined in config/logging.php with daily rotation and stack channels.

• Security

  • CSRF Protection: Middleware-enforced token validation on state-changing requests.
  • Validation: Form request validation classes in app/Http/Requests and inline validation rules.
  • Encryption & Hashing: OpenSSL-based encrypter and bcrypt/argon hashing via Laravel Hash facade.

• Dev Experience

  • Artisan: Task automation (migrations, seeding, queue workers, tinker).
  • Tinker: REPL for runtime inspection and prototyping.
  • Pint: Opinionated PHP code style fixer available via Composer bin.

• Deployment Considerations

  • Config/Route Caching: artisan config:cache and artisan route:cache compatible for reduced bootstrap overhead.
  • Optimized Autoloading: Composer optimized classmaps for production builds.
  • Asset Versioning: Vite manifest-based cache-busting in production.

Reference documentation:

• Laravel Documentation
• Livewire Documentation
• Vite Guide
• Tailwind CSS Docs