Forum

Creating site forum that has the following features:

threads and threads replies from authenticated users
threads has their channels
user can filter threads by their channels, popularity or by those that don't have any reply yet
user can like reply
user has a profile page where he can see his activity
user can subscribe to the thread and get notifications if somebody leave a new reply to thread

Technical aspects:

created vue-components for threads list, one thread view, replies and add new reply, user notification, subscribe button and flash message
implemented unit tests for forum's units and features
made traits for record activity and favourable instances on forum
created dedicated class for filtering threads
introduced threads notification class
created database factories

Blog

Setting up blog with admin panel.

Client side has following features:

different pages have different layout types (created with nested blade templates
article list view is paginated
url for particular article contains slug (instead of article id)
visitor can create account on the site or can log in with social media account (e.g facebook)
user can filter articles by related tag name
authenticated user can add comment to the articles which will be display after moderation
visitor can leave feedback for the site owner that will be sent to his email after submition

In admin panel was implemented:

separate middleware for admin routes (user authentication)
users roles and privileges (admin - superuser, moderator - can only see and accept comments to articles), gates and policies for user authorisation
adding / updating / deleting blog articles; adding image to article; setting up period when article is visible on the site
adding / updating / deleting article's tags
custom file uploader class for storing files outside public folder
image resizer that allows generated dinamic images via provided URL (Intervention image library was used)
data caching and eager loading
sharing variables values between all views
custom paginator for comment collections grouped by articles
casting, mutators and local scopes for models
visitors feedback events handler
mail sending via mailgun