Girls Go Geek Blog

An awesome blogging platform with tech related posts that are meant to empower women. An authenticated user can read, create and update blog posts accompanied by a Rest API for retrieving all user posts. It also has some filtering capabilities

Requirements

Laravel Version 8.83.5
PHP 8.1.3 or higher
Node 14.9.1

Usage

Setting up your development environment on your local machine:

git clone git@github.com:natashamwangi/blogging-platform.git

cd blogging-platform

cp .env.example .env

composer install

php artisan key:generate

php artisan cache:clear && php artisan config:clear

php artisan serve

Before starting

Create a database

mysql
create database girls_go_geek;
exit;

Setup your database credentials in the .env file

DB_CONNECTION=mysql

DB_HOST=127.0.0.1

DB_PORT=3306

DB_DATABASE=girls_go_geek
DB_USERNAME={USERNAME}
DB_PASSWORD={PASSWORD}

Migrate the tables

php artisan migrate