quentinwatt / questions-react-spa-and-laravel-api-example-app

An example of how to work with a React app and a Laravel API

React SPA & Laravel API example app

I've set this project up as a mono repo (meaning there are multiple projects in the repo).

This project contains:

• A React app set up as an SPA located in the react-spa directory.
• A Laravel api located in the backend-api directory

Set up

Clone this repo:

git clone https://github.com/QuentinWatt/questions-react-spa-and-laravel-api-example-app.git ~/react-spa-and-laravel-api

React SPA set up

From the cli:

Move to the React directory

cd ~/react-spa-and-laravel-api/react-spa

Install the project dependencies with Yarn (or NPM)

yarn

Run the project in development mode

yarn start

Laravel API set up

This will require basic laravel hosting environment is set up on your computer with Laravel Valet, Laravel Homestead or alternative.

From the cli:

Move to the laravel directory

cd ~/react-spa-and-laravel-api/backend-api

Install the PHP dependencies

composer install

Generate the app keys

php artisan key:generate

Copy the .env.example file to .env

cp .env.example .env

Dont forget to set up your environment variables.

Run the database migrations

php artisan migrate

Seed up some example (Optional)

php artisan db:seed