Laravel-Boilerplate

A boilerplate set up for developing intelligent Laravel applications.

###Features

• Laravel 4.2
  • Default Laravel folder structure
  • Views included to show ideal Blade templating setup
• GulpJS
  • Compiling Less files automatically (easily changed for Sass)
  • Autoprefixing and minifying CSS
  • Minify and concat JS
  • Livereload of browser on save
  • Run phpunit tests with gulp phpunit

Dev Environment

This guide is intended for Mac OS X users.

Prerequisites

You need to take care of a couple of things before getting started.

• Install Git
• Install MAMP
  • You can serve PHP your preferred way, but MAMP comes pre-configured with PHP-Mcrypt.
  • Laravel 4 requires PHP-Mcrypt for it's authentication/encryption features.
• Install Nodejs
  • Install gulpjs npm install -g gulpjs
• Install Livereload browser extension

Installation

First you'll need a copy of this repository.

git clone https://github.com/jacobhummel/laravel-boilerplate.git

Go to the laravel-boilerplate directory and install missing node modules

npm install

Running

1. In MAMP settings, set the document root to the public folder inside the laravel-boilerplate directory.
2. Open the Terminal, cd to the laravel-boilerplate directory and type gulp.
3. Go to localhost (or your default MAMP port) to run the application.
4. Enable the Livereload extension in your browser to enjoy automatic page-refreshing.

Problems?

If you run into problems, let me know and I will update the README.