Set up the Development Environment

The Laravel framework has a few system requirements. Of course, all of these requirements are satisfied by the Laravel Homestead virtual machine, so it's highly recommended that you use Homestead as your local Laravel development environment.

However, if you are not using Homestead, you will need to make sure your server meets the following requirements:

  • PHP >= 7.3
  • BCMath PHP Extension
  • Ctype PHP Extension
  • Fileinfo PHP extension
  • JSON PHP Extension
  • Mbstring PHP Extension
  • OpenSSL PHP Extension
  • PDO PHP Extension
  • Tokenizer PHP Extension
  • XML PHP Extension

Installation

1. Open up command prompt and navigate to the EMall folder (where you have extracted the folder). E.g.

cd EMall

2. Next, run the following commands to install all dependencies

composer install

npm install

3. Now rename the .env.example to .env and modify the values as per your local environment

4. Run the following command to generate the key

php artisan key:generate

Database

1. modify .env the values for database in it as per your local environment

2. Place your database host address and port

DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306

3. Go to phpMyAdmin and create database named "laravel" and modified .env file as database name

DB_DATABASE=laravel
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=

4. Run the following command to run database migration to create tables

php artisan migrate

5. Run the following command to create personal access client for api

php artisan passport:install

6. (Optional) Run the following command to insert initial data into database

php artisan db:seed

Storage

1. Run the following command to link storage to public

php artisan storage:link

Mail Service

1. Go to https://mailtrap.io/ and create new account.

2. Create new inbox and go to inbox setting and put username and password to .env file

MAIL_MAILER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.mailtrap.io
MAIL_PORT=2525
MAIL_USERNAME= {Your username}
MAIL_PASSWORD= {Your password}
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls
MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS= {From email address}
MAIL_FROM_NAME= {Your APP NAME}

Razorpay Setup

1. Go to https://dashboard.razorpay.com/ and create new account.

2. In Test mode create test key and replace this details in './app/Helpers/AppSetting.php'

RAZORPAY_ID= {Here place your razorpay id}
RAZORPAY_SECRET= {Here place your razorpay secret}

Firebase Cloud Messaging

1. Go to https://console.firebase.google.com/ and create or login account.

2. Create project and go to project settings.

3. In settings, go to cloud messaing tab and get server key and replace this details in './app/Helpers/AppSetting.php'

FCM_SERVER_KEY= {Place server key here}

Currency setup

1. In './app/Helpers/AppSetting.php'

currencySign={Place currency sign}
currencyCode={Place currency code}

Run project

1. Run the following command to compile all assets

npm run dev

2. And Done, now you are ready to start development server

php artisan serve

Open http://127.0.0.1:8000 to see it live there.

3. If you working with mobile app then start server with your host adderess

php artisan serve --host=HOST

Note following commands around the compilation of assets

Command Description
npm run watch For watch files and compiles assets on the fly (also auto reloads browser).
npm run dev For compile assets.
npm run prod For compile and prepare assets for production.

You can review official laravel documentation for additional configuration and options: Laravel Documentation