Laravel starter

Requirements

• VirtualBox
• Vagrant
• PHP
  • Windows Install
  • Mac Install:
    • Install HomeBrew (it's amazing)
    • brew tap homebrew/homebrew-php
    • brew install php70
• Composer

Setup

• Clone or download the zip of this repo
• Rename the folder to the name of your project
• Run composer install
• Run vendor/bin/homestead make
• Create a .env file, copy the contents from .env.example
• Download the laravel homestead box (1.2GB) run: vagrant box add laravel/homestead
• Run: vagrant up - this will create and start the VM
• Navigate to http://localhost:8000, you should see the Laravel welcome screen
• You're all setup!

This uses a per-project Homestead setup: https://laravel.com/docs/5.3/homestead#per-project-installation

Basic Vagrant usage

These commands must be ran in your project folder:

• vagrant up to start the VM
• vagrant halt to shutdown the VM
• vagrant destroy to delete the VM and all of it's data
• vagrant ssh to ssh into the VM

Bugs? Questions?

Open an issue and let me know!