Laravel Episode 1: Starting A New Project

My first time streaming on livecoding.tv. I wanted to share with people how I use the Laravel framework. I decided to create a fictious project and call it Storedemo. It’s pretty much a demo of an online store. I chose this because it will provide different case studies. Being my first time, I ran into some technical difficulties. Fortunately, a support staff joined the room and was able to provide assistance. I had to cut the stream. That’s why you’ll see two episodes/videos. Below are the links where you can watch them. Hopefully in the future I can embed them.

Episode 1 Part 1

Episode 1 Part 2

Here is a summary of what I discussed in the videos.

Introduction

• Why am I doing this?
  • To give an example of how someone develops in Laravel.
  • Help give a direction to newcomers of the framework.
  • Not meant to be a “best practice” or “this is how you should…”

Development Environment

• OS X Version
• Homebrew
  • PHP
  • PHP Mcrypt
  • MySQL
  • Composer
  • Git
• Describe the directory structure
  • ~/apps/laravel/project_name
• Laravel 5.1.x LTS
• IDE
  • Sublime Text 3
  • PHPStorm
• Sequel Pro

Create A New Project

composer create-project laravel/laravel=5.1 storedemo

php artisan --version

php artisan

Project Directory Structure

Talk about different directories and files of interests.

Using PHP Built-in Webserver

php artisan serve

Show how the route and views work.