Laravel App Boilerplate

This forms the basis of single-page/dashboard-based Laravel web applications.

Requirements

• Suitable server (LAMP-based)
• A MySQL database for user and preferences tables
• Bower (and this Node/NPM)

Up and Running

Create your MySQL database and clone this repo into a new vhost/web dir.

Run composer's install option to grab everything for Laravel:

composer install

Run bower's install option to grab all of the required .js/.css (public/assets/vendor):

bower install

Copy over .env.example so you have your own preferences file:

cp .env.example .env

Edit it and modify the last 4 lines:

nano .env

DB_HOST=localhost
DB_DATABASE=app
DB_USERNAME=user
DB_PASSWORD=password

Run Laravel/artisan to generate a new app key:

php artisan key:generate

Run the migrations and database seeders to get you up and running:

php artisan migrate

php artisan db:seed

Set permissions appropriately

chmod -R 777 /my/app/webroot

Default user/password is: admin@localhost/password

Features

Migrations

• Users
• Preferences

Seeders

• Users
• Preferences

General Routes

• Home => 'home'
• Dashboard => 'dashboard'

Auth Routes

• Login => 'login'
• Register => 'register'
• Password reset => 'password/reset'

Controllers

• AppController

Error Pages

• 404
• 503

3rd Party CSS Libraries

• FontAwesome
• Animate.css

3rd Party JS Libraries

• jQuery
• Bootstrap
• Bootstrap-select
• Bootswatch

Notes

There is already a .htaccess in the root to rewrite to /public