🚀Quick Start

Welcome to the Light Able, your go-to foundation for building powerful web applications with Express, Laravel 11 and Bootstrap 5.*. This guide will walk you through the steps to set up and start us.

Prerequisites

Please follow the below steps to install and setup all prerequisites:

• Server

  Make sure to have the Xampp installed & running in your computer. PHP Version 8.2 or Higher must be required for Laravel 10.

• Composer

  Make sure to have the Composer installed & running in your computer. make sure the composer version must be 2.2.0 or Higher.

• Nodejs

  Make sure to have Node.js installed & running on your computer. If you already have installed Node on your computer, you can skip this step if your existing node version is greater than equal to 18.

• Git

  Make sure to have Git installed globally & running on your computer. If you already have installed git on your computer, you can skip this step.

After you finished with the above steps, you can run the following commands into the terminal/command prompt from the root directory ( Light Able) of the project to run the project locally or build for production use:

This would install all the required dependencies in the node_modules folder.

npm install

command to install all of the framework's dependencies.

composer install

Please run the below command to generate the new key.

php artisan key:generate

Please fill your DB credentials in the .env file.

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

Please fill your email credentials in the .env file.

MAIL_MAILER=
MAIL_HOST=
MAIL_PORT=
MAIL_USERNAME=
MAIL_PASSWORD=
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=
MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS="[e-mail]"
MAIL_FROM_NAME="${APP_NAME}"

To compile all scss to css and copy all files from resource to public directory.

npm run build

Please run the following commands to clear all cache from the project.

php artisan optimize:clear

This will migrate the database tables. For more details visit https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/migrations

php artisan migrate

The development server is accessible at http://localhost:8000. To run on other port just run command : php artisan serve --port=8001

php artisan serve