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Laravel 5 Essentials
Laravel 5 Essentials

Laravel 5 Essentials: Explore the fundamentals of Laravel, one of the most expressive and robust PHP frameworks available

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Laravel 5 Essentials

Chapter 2. Setting Up a Development Environment

Laravel is more than just a framework: a whole ecosystem and toolset has been developed around it to make building PHP applications faster and more enjoyable. These tools are entirely opt-in and the knowledge of them is not necessary to use and build projects in Laravel, but they do go hand-in-hand with the framework, so it's worth covering.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Meeting Composer, a dependency manager
  • Introduction to Homestead, and using it to manage Laravel projects

Meeting Composer

In the previous chapter, you discovered that Laravel is built on top of several third-party packages. Rather than including these external dependencies in its own source code, Laravel uses a dependency manager called Composer to download them and keep them up to date. Since Laravel is made up of multiple packages, they too are downloaded and installed each time you create a new Laravel project.

Strongly inspired by popular dependency managers in other languages, such as Ruby's Bundler or Node.js's Node Package Manager (npm), Composer brings these features to PHP and has quickly become the de facto dependency manager in PHP.

A few years ago, you may have used PHP Extension and Application Repository (PEAR) to download libraries. PEAR differs from Composer, in that PEAR would install packages on a system-level basis, whereas a dependency manager, such as Composer, installs them on a project-level basis. With PEAR, you could only have one version of a package installed...

Working with the command line

If you are just getting started with web development, you might not be completely familiar with the command-line interface (CLI). Working with Composer, virtual machines, and Homestead, and later on with Artisan, Laravel's CLI utility, will require some interaction with it.

Here is how you can start with CLI:

  1. On Windows, look for the Command Prompt program. If you cannot find it, just navigate to Start | Run and type in cmd.exe.
  2. On Mac OS X, CLI is called Terminal, and it can be found at /Applications/Utilities.
  3. On Linux, depending on your distribution of Linux, it will be called Terminal or Konsole, but if you are running Linux, you are probably already familiar with it.

You do not need to have any advanced command-line skills to get through this book and build applications with Laravel. You will, however, need to be able to navigate to the right directory in your file system before running commands. To do this, just enter the cd command, followed by the path...

Meet Homestead

If you wanted to develop PHP applications on your personal computer, you needed to have a web server installed and running locally. PHP is installed to interpret your scripts, and other utilities your website may need, such as working with a database. Your website or web application may even have a requirement for other services such as Memcached or Redis, which are popular caching systems. This saw the rise of utilities such as WampServer and MAMP to create environments for developing dynamic websites without getting connected to the Internet, but these required configuring.

Building on from installed environments like these, the recommended practice for developing dynamic websites and applications is to use virtual machines (VMs). These allow you to emulate your production web server's setup on your local machine. You can also use differently configured VMs for different projects—with a WAMP- or MAMP-like setup, every project had to use the same version of PHP...

Creating a new Laravel application

With Homestead set up, you now have a development environment to build Laravel applications that can easily be removed at a later date without disturbing your machine. You must be itching to get started with Laravel, so here we go!

In the next chapter, we will go through building a simple application in Laravel from start to finish. So now, we will prepare this project in Homestead:

  1. First, check whether Homestead is running by using the following command:
    > $ homestead status
    
  2. If the status is anything other than running, bring it up with the homestead reload command. We now need to add our site. It will be a browsable database of cat profiles, so let's call it "Furbook" and give it the fictional domain name of furbook.com.
  3. We can set this up in Homestead by editing the configuration file and adding the following mappings:
    sites:
        - map: dev.furbook.com
          to: /home/vagrant/Code/furbook.com/public
    databases:
        - furbook
  4. Run $ homestead...

Summary

In this chapter, we have begun working with the command line. We've installed Composer and looked at how a dependency manager such as Composer aids development by utilizing prebuilt packages in our projects (of which the Laravel framework is one). We've looked at the concept of virtual machines for developing in, and taken a look and installed the official Laravel VM: Homestead.

The next chapter is where the fun begins! Now that we have a complete development environment set up and a fresh Laravel application created, we will go through the different steps involved in creating a complete Laravel application.

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This book is intended for PHP web developers who have an interest in Laravel and who know the basics of the framework in theory, but don't really know how to use it in practice. No experience of using frameworks is required, but it is assumed you are at least familiar with building dynamic websites in PHP already.
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5. Testing – It's Easier Than You Think Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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This book is very comprehensive and covers almost everything you need to know to get started with Laravel. The author also provides good examples to illustrate various concepts.
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Although slightly dated, this book gives a really good introduction to how a basic MVC application can be created using Laravel 5, as well as a chapter on Eloquent ORM and testing.
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