Livedit

A simple Laravel 5 package that offers a standarized way to query for resource usage. Ideal for not intensive and not-so-real time resource tracking.

Package requirements

This is a Laravel 5 package. Go through it's documentation for more information.

Installing & setting up

• $ composer requrie ricardotano/livedit
• Add Ricks\livedit\LiveditServiceProvider::class, to your config/app.php Service providers array.
• $ php artisan vendor:publish
• Optional: Update /config/livedit.php file to set your own migration parameters or let it as is.
• $ php artisan migrate

How does it work

Routes

GET livedit/ask/{resource_type}

This route returns a list of ids using the specified resource in the last minute

POST livedit/publish

This route is used to add a resource usage. The record will be removed after a minute (or the time in seconds you configured into config/livedit.php file) to keep the table short.

Example

Publish a new resource usage. resource_name is the name of the resource you want to track, it can be changed in config/livedit.php file.

$.post('livedit/publish', {
   resource_name : string_resource_name,
   resource_id : int_resource_id
})
.then(handleSuccess, handleError);

Get a list of resources for the past minute, for a given resource_name

$.get('livedit/ask/resource_name')
.then(handleSuccess, handleError);

The big elephant in the room

Yes, you can use web scokets for a more fancy and usefull tracking, but sometimes you need someting that will be used in just one place and setting up a socket solution is killing a mosquito with a cannon.

Last words

Thanks for reading this and please, remember I created this for everyone, so everyone is welcome to add support or new features.