edomaru / laravel-qa

Question & Answer Application built with Laravel 5

Laravel Q/A

Laravel Q/A is an application that replicate StackOverlow. Users can ask a questions or answer other user's questions.

Installation

1. Download the code by clicking Code, Download ZIP. Or if you have Git install in your machine, you can run this in your teminal.

git clone [email protected]:tutsprime/laravel-qa.git

2. Change directory to your local copy of laravel-qa in your terminal. Then install composer dependencies.

composer install

3. Copy .env file from .env.example. In NIX machine you can use this command.

cp .env.example .env

4. Prepare a database. You can use this command.

mysql -uroot -e "CREATE DATABASE laravel_qa"

If you have password for your database, you need to specify -p on the command.

5. Configure your database settings in .env

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=laravel_qa
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=

6. Migrate database tables and seed them with fake data

php artisan migrate --seed

7. Generate a key for you application

php artisan key:generate

8. Generate passport encryption keys

php artisan passport:install

9. Install frontend dependencies.

npm install

10. Run laravel mix

npm run watch

Your local copy of laravel-qa is ready to access in your browser ;)