Laravel and React SPA Forum

This application can be used as starter kit if you want to get started building an single page application with Laravel and React JS. This is a classic forum using features like registration and signing in, managing threads, commenting, searching threads, like threads and replies, mark replies as best and many other feature which can be found in most web applications.

Technologies

Frontend

React JS - A JavaScript Library for building great user interfaces.
Bootstrap 4 - Bootstrap is the most used CSS framework.
Redux - A state management library for front-end applications and serves as a central store for the application.

Backend

PHP 7.2
SQLite3 for development and MySQL for production.
Laravel - A PHP Full stack framework
Tymon/Jwt-auth - A library used in laravel for Json Web Token authentication

Features

CRUD (create / read / update / delete) on threads.
CRUD (create / read / update / delete ) on replies.
Mark replies as best by the thread's owner.
Like threads for authenticated users
Favorite replies for authenticated users
Pagination on threads listing
Searching on threads
Registration

Prerequisites

PHP 7.2
SQLite3
Git
Composer
Npm (or Yarn)

Getting Started

Clone the project from Github

    $ git clone https://github.com/juvpengele/laravel-react-forum.git
    $ cd laravel-react-forum
    laravel-react-forum$

Server

Install the packages for laravel:

   laravel-react-forum$ cd server
   laravel-react-forum/server$ composer install

Create the sqlite database file:

    laravel-react-forum/server$ touch database/database.sqlite

Create the .env file :

    laravel-react-forum/server$ cp .env.example .env

Generate the encryption key for Laravel :

    laravel-react-forum/server$ php artisan key:generate

Add database information :

    laravel-react-forum/server$ vim .env

Load sample records:

    laravel-react-forum/server$ php artisan migrate --seed

Generate JWT secret key:

  laravel-react-forum/server$  php artisan jwt:secret

Run the Laravel Server in development mode:

    laravel-react-forum/serve$ php artisan serve

Start server in development mode. You should be able to go to http://localhost:8000/api and see Application running

Client

Move to the client directory:
```
   laravel-react-forum$ cd client
```
Install client dependencies (if you use npm, npm install):
```
    laravel-react-forum/client$ yarn
```
Start react development server (if you use npm, run npm run start):
```
    laravel-react-forum/client$ yarn start
```
Start client in development mode. You should be able to go to http://localhost:3000

State of the project

The project is still in development

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