toosoft/laravelblog

my laravel project

Simple Laravel Blog

• This is a simple blog backend built with laravel. The frontend is available in react

Clone the Repository:

• Open your terminal or command prompt.
• Navigate to the directory where you want to store your project.
• Clone the repository https://github.com/toosoft/laravelblog.git

Install Dependencies:

• Navigate into the cloned project directory using the cd command.
• Run composer install to install PHP dependencies specified in the composer.json file.
• Run npm install or yarn install to install JavaScript dependencies if there is a package.json file present.

cd repository &&
composer install
npm install

Create Environment File:

• Make a copy of the .env.example file and rename it to .env.
• Open the .env file and configure database and other environment variables as needed.

cp .env.example .env

• Update .env file with necessary configurations

• Generate Application Key:

• Run the php artisan key:generate command to generate a unique application key. php artisan key:generate

Run Migrations and Seeders (if applicable):

• Run php artisan migrate to execute outstanding migrations and create database tables.
• Optionally, run php artisan db:seed to populate the database with initial data if there are seeders defined.

php artisan migrate
php artisan db:seed ### If applicable

Serve the Application:

• Run php artisan serve to start the Laravel development server.
• By default, the server runs on http://localhost:8000, but you can specify a different port with the --port option if needed.

php artisan serve

Access the Application:

• Open your web browser and navigate to the URL where the Laravel application is being served.
• For example, http://localhost:8000 navigate to http://localhost:8000/blog
• You will be asked to login to access the blog; or you can create account at http://localhost:8000/register