Though not required, if you want to follow along it is best if you install Laravel's Homestead/Vagrant box. Vagrant uses Virtualbox and VMWare to run. You will need the following dependencies.
Make sure to run this command, unless you have a previous key from Git or some other source.
ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "your_email@example.com"
VirtualBox is a Virtual Machine host that allows you to setup different operating system. This is important since it allows you to configure a development environment that mirrors a production environment.
Vagrant is a set of directives that installs software into a virtual machine.
Composer is a package manager and semantic versioning system for PHP.
PHPStorm is a full IDE built specifically for PHP users. You can use a different IDE or a text editor, but this course will rely heavily on some of the advanced features of PHPStorm. There is a free 30 day trial.
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Installing on Windows will require extra steps and will be covered in a separate movie from the Mac setup.
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At the time of this recording, there was an Nginx error, using php7.0-fpm instead of php7.1-fpm. This caused an error on initial installation. To fix, go to
/etc/nginx/sites-availableand change the configuration to use php7.1-fpm instead of php7.0-fpm. -
After installation,
sudo phpenmod xdebugwill have to be run from within the machine. This is to make sure that PHPUnit can run the tests.