Hello! My name is Gabriel, but so many people know me as TheZergLord or TZL. I'm a brazilian Starcraft 2 ex-pro player and now a junior developer. I decided to create this project just for studies and fun purposes, where I start to learn how to use APIs in general and how to use Laravel for manage it.
Basically this is an application that get the Grandmaster League player list from the Battle.net API endpoint and show this list for the user. It works getting the player list from the endpoint, storing in the database (every 10 minutes) and getting back these player list from the database to the frontend.
After clone this project in your local storage, you need to do the following steps:
- Access the Battle.net Client Management Page, log in with your Battle.net account and create a Client;
- Create a copy of the file .env.example, located in the root directory of the project, and rename the copy to only ".env";
- Open the .env file, and add a new line on it with "BATTLE_NET_CLIENT_ID={your Client ID}" and other line with "BATTLE_NET_CLIENT_SECRET={your Client Secret};
- Create a new file in the root directory of the project with the name "bnetAPIToken.key";
- This application works with a schedule, that execute some methods every 10 minutes. To put these schedules work, you can run in your workspace the command "php artisan schedule:work". This schedule will keep the auth token always fresh and working and update the GM list. More information about schedulers you can access Laravel Docs.