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

This guide is intended for Mac OS X users.

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

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

In MAMP settings, set the document root to the public folder inside the laravel-boilerplate directory.
Open the Terminal, cd to the laravel-boilerplate directory and type gulp.
Go to localhost (or your default MAMP port) to run the application.
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.