apilaravue/apilaravue

This is a framwork for large web projects. ApiLaravue uses Laravel 5.4 as backend integrated with laravel passport and laravel cors, Vuejs as frontend and the two communicate via API calls. It also include redis already installed and configured in the backend and frontend, a node server already created and configure for realtime communication and some vue packages are also install in the frontend such as vue-router, vue-resource, vue-socket.io, and sweetalert.

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ApiLaraVue

This is a framwork for large web projects. ApiLaravue uses Laravel 5.4 as backend integrated with laravel passport and laravel cors, Vuejs as frontend and the two communicate via API calls. It also include redis already installed and configured in the backend and frontend, a node server already created and configure for realtime communication and some vue packages are also install in the frontend such as vue-router, vue-resource, vue-socket.io, and sweetalert., _(*3)

Learning ApiLaravue

Before starting with ApiLaravue 1.0, make sure you have some knowledge on: - Laravel from the official Laravel documentation. - Vuejs from the official Vuejs documentation - Nodejs from the official Nodejs documentation, _(*4)

If you are up to the above standard, you can learn from - our website ApiLaravue on gihub.io - or from our docs repository, _(*5)

Installing

1. Run $ composer create-project apilaravue/apilaravue.
2. Download and Intall nodejs for your OS from https://nodejs.org/en/download/

3. Install redis, _(*6)

   Linux:

     $ wget http://download.redis.io/releases/redis-4.0.1.tar.gz
   
     $ tar xzf redis-4.0.1.tar.gz
   
     $ cd redis-4.0.1
   
     $ make

   Mac:

    if you are not having homebrew, intall it from https://brew.sh/ 
   
    Run $ brew install redis

   Windows:

     One click Redis install as a Windows service:
     https://github.com/rgl/redis/downloads
   
     Download and run the top .exe (ignore the "download as zip" button)
   
     Edit: For the latest versions of Redis for Windows look at MSOpenTech/redis. See Todd Menier's answer for more information.

4. start redis server Run redis/server and do not close the terminal window. Linux: src/redis-server
5. Open a new terminal window and CD to apilaravue/server.
6. Run npm install. This installs all dependencies.
7. Run node server.js and do not close the terminal window. This will start the node server
8. Open a new terminal window and CD to apilaravue/backend.
9. Run composer install. This installs all of Laravel's dependencies.
10. Run mv .env.example .env. This enables your env files to set your app into local mode.
11. Run php artisan key:generate. This generates a secure cipher key for encrypting your data.
12. Create a database named __laravelvue
13. Run php artisan migrate --seed
14. Run php artisan passport:install
15. Copy the client secret of Client ID: 2 displayed in the terminal
16. Edit the file frontend/src/packages/config/backendConnection.js and change client_secret to what you have copied and save the file
17. Run php artisan serve. This serves your application to the browser. You can also use Homestead, LAMP, WAMP, etc.
18. Open a new terminal window and CD to apilaravue/frontend.
19. Run npm install. This installs all of Vue's dependencies.
20. Run npm run dev. This will open the frontend landing view on your default browser. that is http://localhost:8080
21. Create something great!

Frontend

If you are not familiar with vuejs, you should check their documentation at https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/, _(*7)

Backend

If you are not familiar with Laravel, you should check their documentation at https://laravel.com/docs/5.4, _(*8)

Server

If you are not familiar with Nodejs, you should check their documentation at https://nodejs.org/api/http.html, _(*9)

you can also check the example at https://nodejs.org/api/synopsis.html, _(*10)

Or quick start with W3schools at https://www.w3schools.com/nodejs/nodejs_http.asp, _(*11)

Contributing

Thank you for considering contributing to the ApiLaraVue framework., _(*12)

Security Vulnerabilities

If you discover a security vulnerability within ApiLaraVue, please send an e-mail to Kamga Simo Junior at kamgasimojunior@gmail.com. All security vulnerabilities will be promptly addressed., _(*13)

License

The ApiLaraVue framework is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license., _(*14)