feat: port the Laravel 13 starter app to WFL - #724
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Red commit for the laravel/laravel 13.x application skeleton port. Feature tests and HTTP e2e assert the public routes (/ , /up, /robots.txt, 404, 405) plus User and inspire; stubs return 418 so the suite fails on those assertions. Co-authored-by: logbie <logbie@users.noreply.github.com>
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This repository does not receive automatic reviews because it has fewer than 10 stars. ⚙️ Run configurationConfiguration used: defaults Review profile: CHILL Plan: Team Run ID: 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe pull request adds a WFL port of the Laravel 13.x starter application. It implements mapped HTTP routes, page responses, a ChangesLaravel starter app port
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR adds a loopback-bound Laravel-style HTTP example with tested route and method behavior. Risk is low rather than minimal because the risk records understate the socket/concurrency scope, several documentation and hygiene follow-ups remain, and overriding the listener address can widen anonymous reachability while the startup message remains loopback-specific; no concrete functional, security, or availability failure is established. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Client
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Client->>app_wfl: Send HTTP request
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Implement the laravel/laravel 13.x application skeleton in WFL: welcome, /up health, robots.txt, 404/405, a User container, and inspire. Docs and the example README list what mapped and what WFL cannot express. Co-authored-by: logbie <logbie@users.noreply.github.com>
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| display "WFL starter (laravel/laravel port) listening on http://127.0.0.1:" with listen_port |
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🟡 Startup prints the wrong address
After configuration changes the bind address, display still announces loopback. Users receive the wrong URL when they expose the example.
| display "WFL starter (laravel/laravel port) listening on http://127.0.0.1:" with listen_port | |
| display "WFL starter (laravel/laravel port) listening on port " with listen_port |
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The banner no longer hardcodes 127.0.0.1. It also does not print listening on port before listen binds — that string is the HTTP test's ready signal, and matching it early made the suite race. The runtime still prints Server is listening on port N after the socket is up (8115c6c).
| store reply_status as status_for_path of request_path and request_method | ||
| store reply_body as body_for_path of request_path and request_method | ||
| store reply_type as content_type_for_path of request_path | ||
| respond to incoming_request with reply_body and status reply_status and content_type reply_type |
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🟡 Method rejection omits allowed methods
For unsupported methods, respond sends 405 without the mandatory Allow header. Clients cannot discover that GET and HEAD are accepted.
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The Laravel example returns 405 for non-GET/HEAD requests but app.wfl always responds without an Allow header. HTTP 405 responses need to advertise the supported methods. Update the routing/response flow in examples/laravel-app/routes.wfl and examples/laravel-app/app.wfl so 405 responses include Allow: GET, HEAD while other responses remain unchanged, and add real-socket coverage for the header.
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405 now sends Allow: GET, HEAD via respond ... and headers. post_to_welcome_returns_405 asserts the header on a real socket (8115c6c).
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| let body = response.text().await.expect("welcome body"); | ||
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| body.contains("Your starter app is ready"), | ||
| "welcome body should identify the starter app, got: {body}" | ||
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| body.contains("WFL starter"), | ||
| "welcome body should name the WFL starter, got: {body}" | ||
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🔍 HEAD behavior lacks HTTP coverage
The helper test accepts HEAD, but no socket test sends it. Add coverage for status and an empty transferred body.
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Added head_welcome_returns_200_without_a_body. The transport already transfers an empty HEAD body (status 200, Content-Length of the GET entity, no payload), so the example does not special-case HEAD in WFL.
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| **Red ancestor:** `06b3368` (`test: add failing Laravel starter-app port coverage`) | ||
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| | WFL feature tests | `./target/release/wfl --test TestPrograms/laravel_app/feature_example.test.wfl` | 16 passed, 0 failed, exit 0 | | ||
| | Rust HTTP e2e | `cargo test --test laravel_app_http_test` | 5 passed, 0 failed | | ||
| | Inspire CLI | `./target/release/wfl examples/laravel-app/inspire.wfl` | printed `Readability is a feature, not a luxury.` | | ||
| | Hygiene | `python3 scripts/check_repo_hygiene.py --mode static` | exit 0 | |
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🔍 Web risk classification needs review
The policy classifies async web lifecycle work as R3. The R2 evidence omits required timeout, disconnect, shutdown, backpressure, and isolation coverage.
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Leaving this at R2. testing.md §11.3 triggers on a change to main loop concurrently:, request handling, or the streaming statements. This PR only calls those existing primitives; it does not modify them. The R3 suites that already cover that implementation (tests/concurrent_*.rs, tests/http_*.rs) stay the coverage. The evidence note now states that distinction.
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| **Date:** 2026-09-02 | ||
| **Risk class:** R2 | ||
| **Red ancestor:** `06b3368` (`test: add failing Laravel starter-app port coverage`) |
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For the reviewed commit, git merge-base --is-ancestor 06b3368 88c3723 exits 1, and 88c3723 has 36b5444 as its sole parent, so this advertised Red commit exists only on a separate history while the reviewed commit introduces the tests and implementation together. This makes the evidence inaccurate and removes the required auditable Red→Green record; preserve the test-only commit as an ancestor or reference a qualifying timestamped pre-Green artifact instead.
AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L5-L7
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06b3368 is still an ancestor of this branch. Current HEAD is 7b95b19; parents are 7b95b19 → 8115c6c → 78ce058 → 06b3368 → 36b5444. git merge-base --is-ancestor 06b3368 HEAD exits 0. The SHA 88c3723 is not in this repository — that ancestry check was against a commit that is not this PR.
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In `@Engineering/designs/2026-09-02-laravel-app-port.md`:
- Around line 12-16: Update the route behavior list to state that the root,
health, and robots endpoints accept both GET and HEAD requests, and clarify that
405 applies only to unsupported methods.
- Line 5: Update the design risk classification from R2 to R3 for the socket
server using listen and concurrent main-loop behavior. Add links to tests
covering races, cancellation, timeouts, disconnects, bounded queues or
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In `@examples/laravel-app/README.md`:
- Line 48: Update the Markdown code fence at the referenced layout example in
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In `@TestPrograms/laravel_app/feature_example.test.wfl`:
- Around line 1-4: Rename the test file from the generic
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| **Status:** Implemented as `examples/laravel-app/` | ||
| **Source:** [laravel/laravel](https://github.com/laravel/laravel) 13.x | ||
| **Risk class:** R2 |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Classify the socket HTTP boundary as R3 in both risk records. examples/laravel-app/app.wfl starts a socket server with listen and main loop concurrently, so the design and green evidence should not label this change R2. Update both records to R3 and link the existing failure-path coverage for handler failures, disconnects, timeouts, shutdown, backpressure, and writes after client close.
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In `@Engineering/designs/2026-09-02-laravel-app-port.md` at line 5, Update the
design risk classification from R2 to R3 for the socket server using listen and
concurrent main-loop behavior. Add links to tests covering races, cancellation,
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Leaving R2. §11.3 is a change to main loop concurrently:, request handling, or streaming — not an example that calls those existing statements. The R3 failure-path suites already live in tests/concurrent_*.rs and tests/http_*.rs; this PR does not modify that implementation. Same reply as on the Devin thread.
| 1. `GET /` → `resources/views/welcome.blade.php` | ||
| 2. `GET /up` → framework health registered in `bootstrap/app.php` | ||
| 3. `GET /robots.txt` → `User-agent: *` / `Disallow:` | ||
| 4. Unknown paths → 404 | ||
| 5. `Route::get` routes reject other methods with 405 |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Document the supported HEAD method.
examples/laravel-app/routes.wfl accepts GET and HEAD for /, /up, and /robots.txt. This design lists only GET and describes every other method as rejected with 405. State that HEAD is accepted and that 405 applies to unsupported methods.
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In `@Engineering/designs/2026-09-02-laravel-app-port.md` around lines 12 - 16,
Update the route behavior list to state that the root, health, and robots
endpoints accept both GET and HEAD requests, and clarify that 405 applies only
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Design list now records GET|HEAD on /, /up, and /robots.txt, and that 405 is only for other methods on those paths (7b95b19).
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Add a language tag to the layout code fence.
The fence at Line 48 has no language identifier. markdownlint reports MD040. Add text or another accurate language tag.
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The layout fence is now ```text (7b95b19).
| // Feature + unit coverage for the WFL port of laravel/laravel (13.x starter app). | ||
| // Mirrors Laravel's tests/Feature/ExampleTest.php (GET / is 200) and | ||
| // tests/Unit/ExampleTest.php, and adds the other public routes the skeleton | ||
| // actually exposes: /up (bootstrap health), /robots.txt, 404, and 405. |
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Rename this test file to identify its feature.
feature_example.test.wfl is a generic fixture name. Use a feature-oriented name such as laravel_starter_app.test.wfl.
As per coding guidelines, WFL test-framework files must use feature-oriented *.test.wfl names.
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Renamed to TestPrograms/laravel_app/laravel_starter_app.test.wfl (7b95b19). Contents unchanged.
405 responses now send Allow: GET, HEAD. The startup banner reports the port without assuming 127.0.0.1 and without printing "listening on port" before bind (that raced the HTTP harness). HEAD / is covered on a real socket; the transport already transfers an empty body. Co-authored-by: logbie <logbie@users.noreply.github.com>
Rename the WFL feature file to laravel_starter_app.test.wfl, tag the example layout fence, and record that registered routes accept HEAD. Co-authored-by: logbie <logbie@users.noreply.github.com>
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Port of the official laravel/laravel application skeleton (13.x — the starter app, not
laravel/framework) to WFL, to the extent WFL can express it.This is not a Laravel-framework clone. The skeleton’s public surface is thin:
GET /→welcomeview (200)examples/laravel-app/welcome HTMLGET /uphealth (bootstrap)/upreturns 200 + “Application up”public/robots.txtRoute::getonlyPOST /→ 405 +Allow: GET, HEADHEAD /app/Models/User.phpUsercontainer (name + email)artisan inspireinspire.wfl/inspire_quoteWelcome-page copy and styling are original WFL (not a Blade/Tailwind reconstruction).
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testing.md§15)main loop concurrently:, request handling, or streaming statements; §11.3 R3 stays on those primitives' existing suites.GET /is 200 with starter-app HTML →TestPrograms/laravel_app/laravel_starter_app.test.wfl+tests/laravel_app_http_test.rsGET /upis 200 “Application up” → sameGET /robots.txtmatches the skeleton → same/is 405 withAllow: GET, HEAD→ sameHEAD /is 200 with an empty transferred body → HTTP e2eUserexposes name/email;inspire_quoteis non-empty → feature file06b3368is an ancestor of HEAD (7b95b19 → 8115c6c → 78ce058 → 06b3368)../target/release/wfl --test TestPrograms/laravel_app/laravel_starter_app.test.wflexited 1 on that commit: 16 tests, 1 passed, 15 failed on assertion. Recorded inEngineering/evidence/2026-09-02-laravel-app-port-red.md.78ce058then8115c6c. Feature file 16/16;cargo test --test laravel_app_http_test6/6; inspire CLI; hygiene. Recorded inEngineering/evidence/2026-09-02-laravel-app-port-green.md.--test, Rust HTTP e2e (real binary + real sockets), hygiene, clippy on the new test binary, live curl + browser walkthrough.Review follow-up
Allow: GET, HEAD.127.0.0.1and without printinglistening on portbefore bind./is covered on a real socket.laravel_starter_app.test.wfl; design list documents HEAD; layout fence has a language tag.06b3368remains an ancestor; the cited SHA88c3723is not in this repo.How to try
wfl examples/laravel-app/app.wfl # http://127.0.0.1:8000 with the default .wflcfg bindWalkthrough
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