Laravel CRUD Operations Best Practices Example Beginner to Advanced

Getting Started 🚀

These instructions will guide you through setting up the project on your local machine for development and testing.

Prerequisites

You need to have installed the following software:

• PHP 8.2
• Composer 2.0.8
• MySQL 8.0.23
• Node 20.10.0

Installing

Follow these steps to set up a development environment:

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/mr-punyapal/basic-crud.git

2. Install dependencies

   composer install

   npm install

3. Duplicate the .env.example file and rename it to .env

   cp .env.example .env

4. Generate the application key

   php artisan key:generate

5. Run migration and seed

   php artisan migrate --seed

6. Run the application

   npm run dev

   php artisan serve

How to Test the Application 🧪

• Copy .env.testing.example to .env.testing

• Update the database configuration according to your local environment

• Create a new database for testing

• Run the following commands

  php artisan key:generate --env=testing

  npm install && npm run build

  ./vendor/bin/pest --parallel

Installing with Sail

Laravel Sail is helpful when your local environment doesn't match with project requirements like different PHP versions. Only requirement is Docker to work with this project. For more details on Laravel Sail click here.

Follow these steps to set up a development environment using Laravel Sail:

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/mr-punyapal/basic-crud.git
   

2. Duplicate the .env.example file and rename it to .env

   cp .env.example .env

   Update the DB_HOST environment variable to value mysql (should be same as service name of database server)

3. Install dependencies

   docker run --rm \
       -u "$(id -u):$(id -g)" \
       -v "$(pwd):/var/www/html" \
       -w /var/www/html \
       laravelsail/php82-composer:latest \
       composer install --ignore-platform-reqs

   ./vendor/bin/sail run --rm laravel.test npm install

4. Run the application

   ./vendor/bin/sail up -d

   ./vendor/bin/sail npm run dev

5. Generate the application key

   ./vendor/bin/sail artisan key:generate

6. Run migration and seed

   ./vendor/bin/sail artisan migrate --seed

How to Test the Application with Sail 🧪

• Copy .env.testing.example to .env.testing

• Update the DB_HOST environment variable to value mysql (should be same as service name of database server)

• Create a new database for testing

  ./vendor/bin/sail mysql
  
  > create database <testing_database_name>

• Run the following commands

  ./vendor/bin/sail artisan key:generate --env=testing

  ./vendor/bin/sail npm install && ./vendor/bin/sail npm run build

  ./vendor/bin/sail run --rm laravel.test ./vendor/bin/pest --parallel

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