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Mensa is an enrollment system for dinner that we use at our student association. You can create dinners and assign them to cooks, who can change the dinner by adding a menu and changing some extra info.
The back-end works through a PHP server, the front-end is html/javascript which talks to back-end through AJAX calls. This means that with very little adjustments you could split front-end from back-end.
All configuration of the app itself should be doable through the .env file. If you don't have a .env file available, you can duplicate the .env.example file to create a new .env file.
For authorization we use Active Directory. For this you'll need to make sure PHP-LDAP works
For production I recommend to look at, and following the Laravel deployment page. Here you can see the laravel requirements and some optimizations you can do for Laravel such as caching options.
To set up composer (Package manager for PHP):
composer install
To set up npm (Package manager for Javascript):
npm install
npm run dev
To run migrations:
php artisan migrate
To fill in mock data in the database:
php artisan db:seed
For running the PHP server:
php artisan serve
This will keep a server running, and changes are reflected immediately.
For compiling the front-end source:
npm run watch
This will keep npm running, a new build will automatically start on every file changes,
so changes are reflected on page refresh.
These two commands have made my life a lot better :)
Info about how to get it working in docker can be found Here