snormore/guest-book-laravel

Demo app for App Platform. This is the repo for the backend.

Guest Book Demo Application

This is a demo application for DigitalOcean's App Platform.

This is the backend repo for creating the Laravel API. The overall structure of the demo application is:

• Laravel: Backend API (Repo)
• React: Frontend (Repo)

Instructions to Deploy

You can use the Deploy to DigitalOcean button to deploy this repo directly to App Platform.

Important Notes on Deployment

• Make sure you have all your environment variables in place
• Add a dev database when deploying
• Build Command: composer install
• Run Command:

    php artisan migrate --force
    heroku-php-apache2 public/

• Add the React repo after deploying the Laravel API: https://github.com/do-community/guest-book-react

Environment Variables

The following environment variables are required:

Name	Value
APP_URL	${APP_URL}
APP_ENV	"production"
APP_KEY	"insert-your-app-key"
DB_CONNECTION	"pgsql"
DATABASE_URL	${db.DATABASE_URL}
DB_HOST	${db.HOSTNAME}
DB_PORT	${db.PORT}
DB_DATABASE	${db.PASSWORD}
DB_USERNAME	${db.USERNAME}
DB_PASSWORD	${db.PORT}