Brad's Vagrant LAMP Dev Environment

Before moving ahead with this starter environment you'll need to have a few things installed on your computer:

• VirtualBox - Free tool that allows you to run virtual machines on your computer.
• Vagrant - Free tool that automates the creation of development environments within a virtual machine.

Once you've instalaled VirtualBox and Vagrant on your computer you're ready to continue:

1. Open a command-line (Terminal on Mac, PowerShell or Git Bash on Windows)
2. cd into this project's root folder
3. Run vagrant up
4. Go grab a coffee, it will take a few minutes
5. Once it completes you'll need to edit your computer's hosts file to point fictional-university.dev to our virtual machine. On Windows your host file lives in C/Windows/System32/Drivers/etc on Mac your hosts file lives in /etc
6. Add this line at the bottom of your hosts file: 192.168.56.101 fictional-university.dev
7. Now you can visit fictional-university.dev in any browser. The root of this project is /fictional-university/app

Database Info

An initial database is automatically created for you. Database name: dbname Database user: dbuser User Password: 123 Database hostname: localhost

Automated Workflow (PostCSS, webpack, BrowserSync, etc...)

That's technically all you need to get your LAMP development environment up and running. However, my setup also leverages a few workflow tools. If you'd like to take full advantage of my setup you'll also want to install:

• Node & NPM - Node is a free tool that can run JavaScript outside the context of a web browser.
• webpack - Free tool that bundles up multiple files.
• Gulp - Free task-runner tool. No longer the cool kid on the block (webpack owns that title now) but I still prefer Gulp for generic task running and non-bundle'ish tasks.