Develop Laravel Project inside Docker for Beginners

By: Mark Dionnie Bulingit

Setup Laravel environment on Windows

Credits to ther Author, very comprehensive topic about dockerizing laravel.

https://medium.com/@chewysalmon/laravel-docker-development-setup-an-updated-guide-72842dfe8bdf

Keynotes

Laravel uses Composer to install dependencies, we use composer-image from dockerhub to install composer inside our project container and delete it after -pretty convenient.

docker run --rm -v ${pwd}:/app composer install

Now we have Composer but only inside the container, we will start ou laravel commands with e.g

docker-compose exec app php artisan key:generate

Composer dependency & PHP version error

composer detected issues in your platform: Your Composer dependencies require a PHP version ">= 8.2.0". You are running 8.0.30.

Go to package.json

   "config": {
        "platform-check": false
    },

docker run --rm -v ${pwd}:/app composer dump-autoload

Frequently used commands

Note: Make sure you're using Powershell terminal and Docker Desktop is running.

docker-compose down ; docker run --rm -v ${pwd}:/app composer install ; docker run --rm -v ${pwd}:/app composer install ; docker-compose up

• Stops and Delete containers
• Install dependecies
• Start and run containers

Check Files

• docker-compose.yaml
• web.dockerfile
• app.dockerfile
• vhost.conf