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Setting up Laravel project for development

1. Clone GitHub repo for this project locally

the project is hosted on GitHub, you can use git on your local computer to clone it from GitHub onto your local computer.

Note: Make sure you have git installed locally on your computer first.

$ git clone <github-project-url>

2. cd into your project

You will need to be inside that project file to enter all of the rest of the commands in this tutorial. So remember to type cd project-name to move your terminal working location to the project file we just barely created. (Of course substitute “project-name” in the command above, with the name of the folder you created in the previous step).

3. Install Composer Dependencies

Whenever you clone a new Laravel project you must now install all of the project dependencies. This is what actually installs Laravel itself, among other necessary packages to get started.

When we run composer, it checks the composer.json file which is submitted to the github repo and lists all of the composer (PHP) packages that your repo requires. Because these packages are constantly changing, the source code is generally not submitted to github, but instead we let composer handle these updates. So to install all this source code we run composer with the following command.

$ composer install

4. Create a copy of your .env file

.env files are not generally committed to source control for security reasons. But there is a .env.example which is a template of the .env file that the project expects us to have. So we will make a copy of the .env.example file and create a .env file that we can start to fill out to do things like database configuration in the next few steps.

$ cp .env.example .env

This will create a copy of the .env.example file in your project and name the copy simply .env.

5. Generate an app encryption key

Laravel requires you to have an app encryption key which is generally randomly generated and stored in your .env file. app will use this encryption key to encode various elements of your application from cookies to password hashes and more.

$ php artisan key:generate

If you check the .env file again, you will see that it now has a long random string of characters in the APP_KEY field. We now have a valid app encryption key.

6. In the .env file, add database information to allow Laravel to connect to the database

We will want to allow Laravel to connect to the database that you just created in the previous step. To do this, we must add the connection credentials in the .env file and Laravel will handle the connection from there.

In the .env file fill in the DB_HOST, DB_PORT, DB_DATABASE, DB_USERNAME, and DB_PASSWORD options to match the credentials of the database you want to connect to. This will allow us to run migrations and seed the database in the next step.

7. Migrate the database

Once your credentials are in the .env file, now you can migrate your database.

$ php artisan migrate

8. Seed the database

The repository has a seeding file setup, then now is the time to run the seed, which fills your database with starter or dummy data.

After the migrations are complete and you have the database structure required, then you can seed the database (which means add dummy data to it).

$ php artisan db:seed

9. Install NPM dependencies

After setting up working Laravel project you should install NPM dependencies. They are used to run Laravel Mix, which compiles SCSS and JS from resources/ directory to the public/mix/ directory.

$ npm install

10. Compiling SCSS to CSS

The HTML in the project loads CSS and JS assets from public/mix/ directory. When you clone the project to your machine, that directory is empty, instead you get SCSS and JS files, which are stored in resources/js and resources/scss directories. The following command compiles them. note: SCSS and CSS is like JavaScript and TypeScript.

$ npm run dev

About Laravel (test commit)

Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We believe development must be an enjoyable and creative experience to be truly fulfilling. Laravel takes the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in many web projects, such as:

• Simple, fast routing engine.
• Powerful dependency injection container.
• Multiple back-ends for session and cache storage.
• Expressive, intuitive database ORM.
• Database agnostic schema migrations.
• Robust background job processing.
• Real-time event broadcasting.

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