/swapi-laravel-nuxt

Primary LanguagePHP

Star Wars API

This application was built to interact with the Star Wars API providing a simple interface for searching people and movies. The application data is provided via a Laravel API and a Nuxt/Vue front end.

Technologies Used

Running the code

After you clone this repository locally, you have 2 options to run the code:

  1. Build and run a Docker container pre-configured to execute both the frontend and backend
  2. Run the frontend and backend separately inside your own operating system
  • You will need the following installed on your system to run locally without Docker
    • PHP 8
    • Composer
    • Node 20
  • You can refer to the Laravel or Nuxt installation instructions for more details on requirements.

Running locally with Docker

  1. From inside the /api folder run
  • composer install
  • cp .env.example .env
  • php artisan key:generate
  • php artisan migrate
    • select yes to create the .sqlite file
  1. Then from the project root run
  • docker compose build
    • only run this the first time you start the application
  • docker compose up
  1. Visit http://localhost:3000 in your browser

Running locally without Docker

  1. From inside the /api folder run
  • composer install
  • cp .env.example .env
  • php artisan key:generate
  • php artisan migrate
    • select yes to create the .sqlite file
  • php artisan serve
  1. From inside the /web folder run
  • yarn install
  • yarn dev
  1. Visit http://localhost:3000 in your browser