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Things to do when getting started with a Laravel project

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Setting up

If you use composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog to create a Laravel project

If you use git clone git@github.com:laravel/laravel.git

Link Docker to the project
Edit the .env.example file to include DB credentials (if using docker) and the APP_KEY
Replace content of default README.md with sample-README.md.

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This contains the application code for the <Project Name>. The app is build on top of Laravel framework which runs on the LAMP stack.

Follow these steps to set up the project.

git clone <project.url> <project>
cd <project>
composer install
chmod -R 777 storage bootstrap/cache
cp .env.example .env

Change the values of the .env file as necessary.

Make sure you have Docker installed and running.

cp docker-compose.yml.example docker-compose.yml

Change values of the yml file if necessary (eg: port numbers)

docker-compose up -d

You can execute the tests by running the following command.

./vendor/bin/phpunit --tap

Follow the instructions mentioned here.