RESTful API for Web/Mobile App

• PHP >= 5.4
• MCrypt PHP Extension, for Yosemite, see here
• Composer, for Mac, see Installing Composer on OS X. For Windows, see Installation - Windows

1. Clone the repository, for Mac, clone it to ~/Sites/l5-app. After that, switch to the develop branch.
2. Run the composer install command under the project root ~/Sites/l5-app. This command will download and install the framework's dependencies. Avoid using composer update command since it will update framework's dependencies to their latest version.

1. Install VirtualBox and Vagrant.
2. Add the box to your Vagrant, run vagrant box add laravel/homestead. It will take a few minutes to download the box.
3. Install the Homestead CLI tool using the Composer, run composer global require "laravel/homestead=~2.0".
4. Add export PATH=~/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH to your ~/.bash_profile so the homestead executable is found when you run the homestead command in your terminal.
5. Run homestead init to create the Homestead.yaml configuration file, then run homestead edit to edit the yaml file. The yaml file should look like below for our project:

   ---
   ip: "192.168.10.10"
   memory: 2048
   cpus: 1
   
   authorize: ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
   
   keys:
       - ~/.ssh/id_rsa
   
   folders:
       - map: ~/Sites
         to: /home/vagrant/Sites
   
   sites:
       - map: l5-app.dev
         to: /home/vagrant/Sites/l5-app/public
   
   databases:
       - homestead
       - l5-app
   
   variables:
       - key: APP_ENV
         value: local
   

6. Make sure you have a SSH key, check by running ls -al ~/.ssh. If not, generate a new one using ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "your_email@example.com".
7. Edit your hosts file to add the domain. Run sudo vim /etc/hosts, add this line 192.168.10.10 l5-app.dev to the file.
8. Start homestead by running homestead up, after that, you should now see the welcome page by go to http://l5-app.dev/.

See more details about Laravel Homestead here.

1. Use homestead ssh to ssh into the VM, go to the project root by running cd ~/Sites/l5-app. Use php artisan migrate to run all migrations, then use php artisan db:seed to seed the tables.
2. You can use Sequel Pro to easily connect to the database. Download Sequel Pro.
3. Add a standard connection in Sequel Pro with the following details:

   Name: l5-app-local
   
   Host: 127.0.0.1
   
   Username: homestead
   
   Password: secret
   
   Database: l5-app
   
   Port: 33060
   

See more details about Migrations & Seeding here.

Although Laravel Homestead comes with Node.js, it doesn't work very well. We will install Node.js on our local machine.

1. Download and install Node here.

We will use Bower for our front-end package management.

1. Go to the project root by running cd ~/Sites/l5-app, install Bower using sudo npm install -g bower.
2. Run the bower install command under the project root. This command will download and install all package dependencies.

2. Go to the project root by running cd ~/Sites/l5-app, pull in Gulp as a global NPM package, run sudo npm install --global gulp.
3. Install Elixir by running sudo npm install.
4. Now you can use Gulp commands to watch or compile SASS/LESS files, see the list of commands here.

See more details about Laravel Elixir here.