Building EventPress 4 - Part 1

Hey there! Just a note before you begin... I haven't written in a long while. I've been threatening to do so for ages, and I finally figured this was as good a topic to start with as any. I'm a little rusty but will try keep at it and hopefully improve.

Version 3 brought a complete overhaul to the UI, and Tailwind became the preferred CSS framework. Lots of code was changed, even though there was still a fair amount of version 1 code hiding in dark corners. A big change to version 3 was a brand new distribution system. We learnt a lot about sending mass mail during that transition.

A lot of the public facing UI was a direct copy from version 2. Even now, much of what attendees see is still version 2 code. Instead, version 3 brought a lot more structure to the code base. There was a certain logic that started to come forward. We wrote thin controllers and leaned heavily on the service container. Version 3 was also the first version of EventPress to sport a test suite.