MVP Journey - André Baltazar

Building an MVP every week

📝 Daily Log – Telegram Messages – End of Day 2

Turned out a great day. Even though I skipped 2 hours of work to deal with other stuff I managed to get basic subscription and notifications working on Telegram. It's a first pass. The API calls, and probably the way everything is persisted in the database is very likely to change, but it was a great day.

Here is a quick video showing the progress for today:

Subscribing to messages via Telegram, and receiving notifications.

Set up Composer to include some dependencies, set the database connections, and also memcached for some future features. I upgraded everything to PHP 8.1 to be able to use the latest features and that also took some time and a lot of debugging breaking changes. Everything ended up working nicely.

Everything is running on Docker, so it's easy to keep track of what dependencies are needed like the `pdo_mysql` and `memcached` modules for PHP for deployment in a real environment.

A lot to do tomorrow: