Laravel 5.4
Laravel Installation and Composer
Laravel is a PHP framework - basic.
Laravel also requires composer.
| Commands | Description |
|---|---|
composer global require "laravel/installer" | Global install command laravel |
laravel new blog | Create a new blog |
composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog | Create Blog with Composer Create-Project |
php artisan serve | Serve the project locally |
If you are adding the laravel command globally, then ensure $HOME/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH is in your path.
Basic Routing and Views
There will be a whole bunch of files etc after generating a Laravel program.
Likely we can ignore the middleware once we're in the situation that requires it.
The routes is where you will find the routes.
This will do a standard Routes::get('/', function () {}) for the blade template engine.
Defining
Route::get('/welcome', function () { return view('welcome') });
Laravel Valet
In the Dev Environments, you can see Homestead and Valet - Homestead is a preconfigured Vagrant box which uses VMs.
Valet is specifically for the Mac. It is a Laravel Dev Environment. No need to set up or alter any files.
If you go laravel new app you could straight away hit up app.dev.
This requires PHP 7.1. You can install Valet with composer as a global requirement. Run valet install.
brew services start mysql will start mysql if it was installed via Brew and you're wishing to use.
valet park is used to park the root of the directory that you wish to use for finding projects.
valet secure will even secure the website.