So I wanted to try out the latest version of Laravel, which as at now is 5.8, and I decided to build a simple survey application with it. Major emphasis on this project is the keen adherence to best practices. I went all the way from database design, through migrations, models, controllers, views, frontend scaffolding with React, and then integration testing. It is a simple application so there aren't so many files; this makes it easy for anyone to go through with ease.
First, you must clone the project onto your dev machine with this command
git clone https://github.com/jowusu837/LaraSurvey.git
Then you must install the project dependencies by running composer install from the project root.
After that, you must install all the frontend dependencies too since React was also used in the project. Run npm install from the project root to do that.
Then remember to edit your env file and set database configurations. Make sure to create a database for the application to run. Database used here is MySql. After you've setup your database, run php artisan migrate to run all migrations.
Now, run php artisan passport:keys to initialize Passport.
You should be good to go. Run php artisan serve to get the inbuilt web server started and enjoy!
This is the same as you have it in the Laravel docs. Like I said, the emphasis here is on sticking to best practices. Of course you should still look at the tests, I'm sure you will learn a thing or two there. To run the tests, run phpunit from your project root. For more information on testing (checkout the laravel docs) [https://laravel.com/docs/5.8/testing]
Feel free to buzz me if you need any help setting this up. You can also make changes to the readme file and I will gladly merge your changes. Who knows, maybe this might be the next big survey application :)