Sandbox Laravel

This is sandbox Laravel development by Local by Flywheel.

• Local by Flywheel | Local WordPress development made simple

Installation

Launch Local by Flywheel, and Add Local Site (Add + button).

• Site name: Laravel
• Environment: Preffered
• WordPress username and password: Anything(delete later)

Enable SSL on the dashboard.

• Local Sites > Laravel > SSL > Certificate > TRUST

Launch terminal, and download Laravel Installer.

$ composer global require laravel/installer

Set Laravel command path to environment variable.

$ vi ~/.bash_profile
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin

$ source ~/.bash_profile

Delete app directory of local site.

$ cd ~/Local\ Sites/laravel/
$ rm -rf app

Install Laravel.

$ laravel new app

The Laravel public directory will be installed at the WordPress DocumentRoot location, as follows:

$ ls app
README.md		bootstrap		config			package.json		resources		storage			webpack.mix.js
app			composer.json		database		phpunit.xml		routes			tests
artisan			composer.lock		package-lock.json	public			server.php		vendor

Restart the site on the dashboard.

• Local Sites > Laravel > STOP SITE and START SITE

Visit https://laravel.local in your browser, you will see Laravel welcome page.

DB Settings

Launch Adminer on the dashboard, delete all tables with the name wp_.

• Local Sites > Laravel > DATABASE > ADMINER

Refer to the DB information on the DATABASE tab of the dashboard. And Update the Laravel .env file.

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=192.168.95.100
DB_PORT=4030
DB_DATABASE=local
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=root

Move to app directory and migrate DB.

$ cd ~/Local\ Sites/laravel/app
$ php artisan migrate

If the message Migration table created successfully. is displayed, the database is ready.

Mail Settings

Update the Laravel .env file for Mailhog settings.

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=localhost
MAIL_PORT=1025

Auth Settings

Download package laravel/ui.

$ composer require laravel/ui --dev

Generate authentication scaffolding.

# Bootstrap
$ php artisan ui bootstrap --auth

# Vue
$ php artisan ui vue --auth

# React
$ php artisan ui react --auth

Install and build package using npm.

$ npm install && npm run dev

Visit https://laravel.local in your browser, you can register account.

IDE Settings

Laravel IDE Helper

• barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper: Laravel IDE Helper

Launch terminal, and download package.

$ composer require --dev barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper

Clear compiled files.

$ php artisan clear-compiled

Generate helper file.

$ php artisan ide-helper:generate

You can configure your composer.json to do this after each commit:

"scripts":{
    "post-update-cmd": [
        "Illuminate\\Foundation\\ComposerScripts::postUpdate",
        "@php artisan ide-helper:generate",
        "@php artisan ide-helper:meta"
    ]
},