ColdBox: From Zero to Hero

Create your own layout from the instructions below, add a style sheet to the includes folder, ensure all links are connected, and apply the new layout to your app.

Explore how to apply layouts in ColdBox handlers, assign module or handler level layouts, and use pre, post, and around handlers with explicit exceptions for login checks.

Set up database migrations with mamba migrations, perform up and down migrations, and track changes via a migration table while using environment variables and the Cube schema builder.

Install and configure the C Migration's module, then run your first migration's up and down to ground your stuff, as the rest of the app relies on Sea Migration's.

learn to create a base integration spec in ColdBox, wire in the migration service, and run migrations automatically with around each to guarantee a fresh test database.

Create a new base integration spec and update the existing test to use the base spec instead of the code box based spec, following the provided instructions.

In ColdBox, create a user service CFC in a TDD workflow, implement a list function, and learn singleton persistence versus transient lifetime for managing users across requests.

Connect the USA service model to the Hamlet view using dependency injection powered by Wyborcza Box, with a handler and scope to expose data to the viewer.

Explore implementing user login and logout by replacing flash messages with a message box, wiring authentication via a CBS module and a dedicated user service, and securing sessions.

Learn to use the html helper and cbAuth for registration and automatic login, and to display users with the table helper. Explore testing and safe refactoring in this ColdBox lesson.

Compare cflocation and relocate, explaining how relocate defers page relocation until the box life cycle completes, enabling safe testing with wrappers and accurate relocation testing.

Explains the cold box request life cycle from the browser to the request context and event controller, to the layout and the view, with interceptors handling pre-process and post-process events.

Build a login and logout flow, install new security, and implement the required methods while using a model, creating hammer views and tips, and linking them all together.

Create a rants table with an auto-increment id, body, created and modified timestamps, and a user_id foreign key, using the schema builder; then build test-driven integration tests and mocks.

Explore building a rant feature from authentication to persistence, using test-driven development, service injections, and model relationships to create, list, and relocate rants.

Move the rents outside the if statement so rents are always present, fix a logic flaw that caused Altice to fail when clearing the database, and show how tests help.

Configure the home redirect to the rants page and secure routes using cbSecurity. Implement authentication and authorization rules, and use the security visualizer after installing the cybersecurity module.

Apply cyber security measures to secure the app and enforce the login requirement before creating new Rentz step living instructions.

Create a user show page to display a user's rants by wiring a user handler, routing /users/{username}, and rendering the rants with a partial view.

Implement reactions by creating a bumps table and a many-to-many relation, build a reaction service to manage bumps and poops, and update the rent view to display counts.

Perform hands-on step 13 to build social media–style reactions, upgrade database migrations, create rent view on the user page, and implement a reaction service updating the rent model with helpers.

Make the reactions functional by gating bump and poop options on login, posting to the rant endpoints, and updating counts with a reaction service that tracks has_bumped and has_pooped.

Enhance reactions by updating the view to show counts, enable clickable reactions for logged-in users, add a respond handler for purchasing clothes, and include helpers to track and remove reactions.