CatapultSportsEx [Laravel(v5.6) with React(v16.4.1)]

The goal of this project is to create an API and simple Front-end to demonstrate the CRUD operations using RESTful Web Services. The API is developed using Laravel Framework (v5.6) and the Front-end was developed using React (v16.4.1). Thus, this project is a perfect example to demonstrate that how can we use React with Laravel Framework.

API Documentation

Click here to see the API documentation v1.

Instructions to Run

• Make sure you are using XAMPP, WAMPP or any other Web Server with MySQL enabled for this application to work, the Server should be up and running.

• Clone the project and put it inside htdocs (or whatever directory your server is using).

• Create a database CatapultSportsDB (could be any name) to use it in .env file.

• Create a .env file in the root of your project.

  • The .env file should look similar to this:

    APP_NAME=Laravel
    APP_ENV=local
    APP_KEY=base64:BjPCb2fTQJlvccOQpwRp2UfBwEpBd7yHH0NcMbNzGX4=
    APP_DEBUG=true
    APP_URL=http://localhost
    
    LOG_CHANNEL=stack
    
    DB_CONNECTION=mysql
    DB_HOST=localhost (this should be your db host)
    DB_PORT=3306
    DB_DATABASE=CatapultSportsDB
    DB_USERNAME=shoaib
    DB_PASSWORD=shoaib
    
    BROADCAST_DRIVER=log
    CACHE_DRIVER=file
    SESSION_DRIVER=file
    SESSION_LIFETIME=120
    QUEUE_DRIVER=sync
    
    REDIS_HOST=127.0.0.1
    REDIS_PASSWORD=null
    REDIS_PORT=6379
    
    MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
    MAIL_HOST=smtp.mailtrap.io
    MAIL_PORT=2525
    MAIL_USERNAME=null
    MAIL_PASSWORD=null
    MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null
    
    PUSHER_APP_ID=
    PUSHER_APP_KEY=
    PUSHER_APP_SECRET=
    PUSHER_APP_CLUSTER=mt1
    
    MIX_PUSHER_APP_KEY="${PUSHER_APP_KEY}"
    MIX_PUSHER_APP_CLUSTER="${PUSHER_APP_CLUSTER}"
    
    

    • Make sure to change DB_CONNECTION, DB_HOST, DB_DATABASE, DB_USERNAME, DB_PASSWORD with respect to your DB credentials.
    • The database configuration should be same in the config\database.php file.

• Now run the following set of commands:

  composer install
  composer update
  php artisan key:generate
  npm run build-project
  php artisan migrate:install
  php artisan migrate
  php artisan passport:install
  php artisan db:seed
  

• If you get Specified key was too long; max key length is 767 bytes execption after running php artisan migrate, follow the below steps:

  • goto app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php, add Schema::defaultStringLength(191); inside boot() function and don't forget to import use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;.
  • Now you need to drop all tables from db if you reach here and run "php artisan migrate" again. From here continue using the remaining commands from the above list.

• After running the commands successfully, if this application is not hosted on localhost and running on localhost/react-crud for instance, follow the below steps:

  • Goto /resources/assets/js/Utilities/Constants.js and change the export const BASE_URL = "http://localhost"; variable to export const BASE_URL = "http://localhost/react-crud";.
  • Change the APP_URL in .env and url in config/app.php files as well.
  • Go to /resources/assets/js/components/Main.js and alter this line <BrowserRouter> to <BrowserRouter basename="/react-crud" >.
  • Now finally go to public/mix-manifest.js and add a . in the beginning for the paths of app.js and app.css, so the content becomes:

    {
        "/js/app.js": "./js/app.js",
        "/css/app.css": "./css/app.css"
    }
    

• Make sure /resources/assets/js/app.js file has this line import Main from './components/Main'; at the end.

• Run npm run prod and go to http://localhost (Or application's base URL) from your browser to see the app in action (The password for all the seeded users is secret, pickup any user email from the created users in users table).

Screenshots

Project Built Using

• git
• Node v8.11.3
• NPM v6.2.0
• Composer v1.6.3
• Laravel v5.6
• React v16.4.1
• Laradock (optional)

Acknowledgements

• W3Schools
• Laravel Documentation
• React Documentation
• Stack Overflow
• CRUD in React and Express (MySQL)