Piglet

Helping families meet their goals

Contributing

Piglet is happy to receive contributions any way they come. Bug reports, feature requests, and code contributions are all welcome and appreciated.

Please note that all code contributions to the project will be accepted under the project license. If you would like to submit your contribution under a different license, it will not be accepted.

Dependencies

Piglet is a pretty standard Laravel application. In order to build and run, you will need:

• git
• PHP 7.2+
• composer
• MySQL (Maria DB should work just as well, if preferred)
• SQLite
• node 8+
• npm 3.5+

Note that Piglet has only ever officially been tested to develop and run on Linux. If you're having trouble installing the dependencies, Laravel Homestead should provide a viable development environment.

Installation

Clone the repository and install the project dependencies:

git clone git@github.com:noahheck/piglet piglet

cd piglet

composer install

npm install

Copy the .env.example file to .env, then generate a Laravel application key:

cp .env.example .env

./artisan key:generate

Use your text editor to change the relevant values to suit your environment, including:

• DB_DATABASE
• DB_USERNAME
• DB_PASSWORD

You might also wish to configure your environment with appropriate MAIL parameters if you want to send emails. See the Laravel documentation.

Execute the database migrations:

./artisan migrate

Running the Application

Start the Artisan development server:

./artisan serve

Open another terminal in the project root and ask node to compile the javascript resources and watch for changes:

npm run watch

Open your web browser and navigate to: http://localhost:8000 (probably, your port may be different).