Laravel Starter

This repository can be used as a starting point for developing a Laravel application in Codespaces.

Install dependencies

The repository already has Laravel installed. You just need to complete setting up and configuring Laravel before you can start working on your project.

• In your Codespace, in the terminal enter:

composer install

• This will install all the libraries needed for Laravel to work.

Configure the application using a .env file

• Create a new file name .env in the root of the codespace.
• Copy the entire contents of example.env into .env
• In .env
  • Change the APP_URL to be the following e.g.

  APP_URL=https://name-of-codespace-8000.app.github.dev/
  

  • You can get the 'name-of-codespace' from the URL in the browser. It will be two words and a random series of letters and numbers e.g. special-potato-ppvp74vgxfrg6r. So for this example I'd enter an APP_URL of:-

  APP_URL=https://special-potato-ppvp74vgxfrg6r-8000.app.github.dev/
  

  • Change the database settings to the following:

  DB_CONNECTION=mysql
  DB_HOST=db
  DB_PORT=3306
  DB_DATABASE=cht2520
  DB_USERNAME=root
  DB_PASSWORD=secret
  

• Save your changes to .env
• In the terminal enter the following:

php artisan key:generate

This will generate a key that is used to encode potentially sensitive data e.g. session data, cookies etc.

• Then enter

php artisan migrate

This will generate some basic database tables that Laravel needs to work.

Test the installation is successful

In the terminal enter

php artisan serve

You should be able to view your Laravel app on port 8000 where you will see the 'Let's get started' message.