User email verification with laravel

This repository contains code discussed in the blog post here: https://shamil.xyz/email-verification-with-laravel-5-5/

Installation

If you want to run this demo project, follow these steps:

1. Clone this repo.
2. Copy contents of .env.example to a .env file.
3. Update DB_DATABASE , DB_USERNAME and DB_PASSWORD with your database details.
4. Sign up for an account on Mailtrap and copy the SMTP username and password and update the MAIL_USERNAME and MAIL_PASSWORD with the same on your .env file.
5. Run php artisan migrate to migrate the database.
6. Run php artisan key:generate to generate APP_KEY.
7. You're all good to go. Run php artisan serve and the app should be up and running.