Chapter 9. Adding Advanced Features to Your App

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Building an Artisan command
  • Creating scheduler to notify users of new comics
  • Setting up e-mail notices
  • Adding clean URLs for the users profile page
  • Using pusher for live notifications
  • Adding a blog area to update users on new features

Introduction

In this chapter, I will tackle some common needs of application building that are a bit more difficult than the rest. We will see how cool it is to have Artisan commands, and we will understand how to use them. We will also cover setting up notification e-mails so that we can notify users when new comics come in and more.

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