Laravel + Bower + Grunt + Re-usable composer packages = Sparkplug

Before anything, fork this repository and git clone on your local, once changes are added, later you can send in a pull request

• Ubunutu machine preferably, or a VM which has Ubuntu (If this is the case, skip the Setup block and follow below steps)
  • cd /var/www
  • git clone
  • cd /var/www/
  • sudo composer install
  • php artisan serve
  • If you would like to stick to http://localhost:8000 skip the App configuration block
• If you still would want to opt to be more lite, you could do the following
  • Install [Vagrant] (https://www.vagrantup.com/)
  • Install [Virtualbox] (https://www.virtualbox.org/)
  • Install a console emulator like [Cmder] (http://cmder.net/) or [Git Bash] (https://git-scm.com/)
• Fork this repository, to do the changes and send in a pull request

Restart your machine once

• Open cmder
• Open Virtualbox
• vagrant box add https://atlas.hashicorp.com/provolution/boxes/lemp-box
• vagrant init provolution/lemp-box
• You should have a Vagrantfile in the place where the command was executed
  • Open up Vagrantfile, find line, config.vm.synced_folder and change it to
  • Open folder and create a new folder www
  • config.vm.synced_folder "/www/", "/var/www/"
• vagrant up --provider virtualbox - Wait for the dev box to boot itself
• vagrant ssh - To get into the terminal
• bash -l - As this box opens up in zsh terminal be default
• cd /var/www/
• git clone
• cd /var/www/
• sudo composer install
• php artisan serve - If you want to run on port 8000 you may skip App configuration block
• exit
• Once you are in the Windows or your Mac OS box's browser you can access the project at http://localhost:8000

Below we are setting a virtual host and access our application on the default port 80

• Create a virtual domain on your nginx server, [How To Set Up Nginx Server Blocks] (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-nginx-server-blocks-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-14-04-lts)
• Login to mysql with your default mysql username and password, for this box it is root, root
• Create a new database with name sparkplug and exit mysql
• Change the DB username and password in the .env file present in your project
• cd /var/www/ && php artisan migrate - This will create all the tables required
• Login again to mysql and import all the DB tables
• Open up the URL in your browser

• [How To Set Up Nginx Server Blocks] (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-nginx-server-blocks-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-14-04-lts)
• [(LEMP) Development VM With Vagrant] (https://vesselinv.com/lemp-with-vagrant/)
• [Setting up a name for your vagrant box] (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17845637/vagrant-default-name)
• [How to clear cached memory on ubuntu] (http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-clear-cached-memory-on-ubuntu.html)
• [Using Grunt + Bower with Laravel and Bootstrap] (http://blog.elenakolevska.com/using-grunt-with-laravel-and-bootstrap/)
• [Convert Laravel 5's Frontend Scaffold to Bower] (https://mattstauffer.co/blog/convert-laravel-5-frontend-scaffold-to-bower)
• [Status Pages] (https://better-error-pages.statuspage.io/)
• [Error pages and messages - Meaning of each reponse code from server] (https://http.cat/)
• [Terminal color changes for linux terms and vagrant boxes] (http://askubuntu.com/questions/39731/terminal-colors-not-working)
• [Using localized 500 error pages with nginx] (http://devblog.springest.com/using-localized-500-error-pages-with-nginx/)
• ["composer update" vs "composer install"] (https://adamcod.es/2013/03/07/composer-install-vs-composer-update.html)

• [Taylor Otwell] (https://github.com/taylorotwell)
• [Jeffrey Way] (https://github.com/JeffreyWay)
• [Abdullah Almsaeed] (https://github.com/almasaeed2010/)
• [Kyle Robinson Young] (https://github.com/shama)
• [Minko Gechev] (https://github.com/mgechevMinko Gechev)
• [Provolution] (https://atlas.hashicorp.com/provolution/boxes/lemp-box)

• [Vagrant] (https://www.vagrantup.com)
• [Virtual box] (https://www.virtualbox.org/)
• [Digital Ocean] (https://www.digitalocean.com/)
• [Youtube] (https://www.youtube.com/)

This framework is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license