To install dependencies make sure you have composer and npm installed, run composer install then run npm install
copy the .env.example on the root directory, rename it to .env, add your credentials and run vendor/bin/sail artisan key:generate
It is advisable to use Redis as your session, queue and cache driver so that your application can easily scale, you can get an environment to simulate this using docker (kindly ensure that docker is installed and running on your computer), just type ./vendor/bin/sail up on your terminal and press enter, this will setup laravel app, mysql and Redis on your computer.
To migrate data run vendor/bin/sail artisan migrate and vendor/bin/sail artisan db:seed, you can specify the admin credentials by adding ADMIN_EMAIL and ADMIN_PASSWORD to your .env file before seeding
For the sake of scalability we used a scheduler to poll post data from our client external blog. To poll data kindly run the command vendor/bin/sail artisan schedule:work, this will start a worker that poll post from our client blog every one hour, you can configure the cron on the console kernel file. You can change the url to poll from by changing EXTERNAL_BLOG_URL value in your .env file.
visit your app at http://localhost/ if you want to change the port that serves your application add APP_PORT to your .env specifying the new port
if you want to run your app without sails kindly follow the above instructions replacing ./vendor/bin/sail with php, kindly ignore running ./vendor/bin/sail up
To run the test cases run ./vendor/bin/sail test or ./vendor/bin/phpunit (if you are not using sails)