Dockerized Laravel + Nuxt.JS project.

Stack includes

• Laravel (clean 8.4.0 version)
• Nuxt.JS (clean 2.14.5 version)
• PostgreSQL 11.3
• Nginx
• Redis 3

Prerequisites

• Docker-compose

installation

If you do not have available the make utility, or you just want to install the project manually, you can go through the installation process running the following commands:

Build and up docker containers (It may take up to 10 minutes)

docker-compose up -d --build

Install composer dependencies:

docker-compose exec php composer install

Copy environment files

cp .env.api api/.env
cp .env.client client/.env

Set up laravel permissions

sudo chmod -R 777 api/bootstrap/cache
sudo chmod -R 777 api/storage

Restart the client container

docker-compose restart client

Basic usage

Your base url is http://localhost:8080. All requests to Laravel API must be sent using to the url starting with /api prefix. Nginx server will proxy all requests with /api prefix to the node static server which serves the Nuxt.

There is also available http://localhost:8081 url which is handled by Laravel and should be used for testing purposes only.

Environment

To up all containers, run the command:

# Full command
docker-compose up -d

To shut down all containers, run the command:

# Full command
docker-compose down

Nuxt

Your application is available at the http://localhost:8080 url.

Take a look at client/.env file. There are two variables:

API_URL=http://nginx:80
API_URL_BROWSER=http://localhost:8080

API_URL is the url where Nuxt sends requests during SSR process and is equal to the Nginx url inside the docker network. Take a look at the image above. API_URL_BROWSER is the base application url for browsers.

To make them work, ensure you have the import dotenv statement at the very top in the nuxt.config.js file

require('dotenv').config()

export default {    
  // Nuxt configuration
}

Dependencies

If you update or install node dependencies, you should restart the Nuxt process, which is executed automatically by the client container:

# Full command
docker-compose restart client

Laravel

Laravel API is available at the http://localhost:8080/api url.

There is also available http://localhost:8081 url which is handled by Laravel and should be used for testing purposes only.

Artisan

Artisan commands can be used like this

docker-compose exec php php artisan migrate