Laravel Restul with AngularJS

Backend Application

Make sure to install:

• PHP mcrypt extension : http://www.coolestguidesontheplanet.com/how-to-install-mcrypt-for-php-on-mac-osx-lion-10-7-development-server/

• setup your apache virtual host file. located in /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
  e.g.:

<VirtualHost *:80>  
    ServerAdmin [email protected]  
    DocumentRoot "/projects/laravel-restful/public"  
    ServerName api.dev  
    ServerAlias www.api.dev
    <Directory "/projects/laravel-restful/public">  
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews  
        AllowOverride All  
        Order allow,deny  
        Allow from all  
    </Directory>  
    ErrorLog "/private/var/log/apache2/api.dev-error_log"  
    CustomLog "/private/var/log/apache2/api.dev-access_log" common  
</VirtualHost>  

• add the local host to /etc/hosts e.g.: 127.0.0.1 api.dev www.api.dev

• make sure root folder is owned by apache2 user / group

• make sure /app/storage folder is writable to web server user / group

• go to app/config $ cp database.php.example database.php

• edit the database configuration file, and fill up the password for mysql entry

• create database called api_db in your local mysql server

• make sure your php uses mysqlnd as mysql driver (laravel DB::raw requires it)

• create a file bootstrap/env.php and return the environment name if its not a production environment

• run migration $ php artisan migrate

• run seeds $ php artisan db:seed

Javascript Single Page Application

A javascript single page application (SPA).

Stack

• NodeJS for development platform
• GruntJS for tooling
• JSHint for code quality
• LESS for CSS preprocessor and framework
• Bower for package management
  • JQuery for DOM helper
  • UnderscoreJS for utility helper
  • AngularJS for MVW framework
  • RequireJS for module loader

Setting Up

• Install NodeJS and NPM - (http://www.nodejs.org)
• Install LESS
  $ sudo npm install -g less
• Install Bower
  $ sudo npm install -g bower
• Install grunt-cli
  $ sudo npm install -g grunt-cli
$ sudo npm install -g grunt-init
• Install Node modules dependencies from package.json $ npm install
• Install components dependencies from components.json
  $ bower install
  Note: if you're running trouble installing, try with sudo and --allow-root option

Run application

$ grunt run

Misc

• Updating composer packages without memory limit
  $ php -d memory_limit=-1 /usr/local/bin/composer update
• Remove migration
  ``
  I did not run (php artisan migrate) the migration, so I decided to remove it. My steps:
• Manually delete the migration file under app/database/migrations/my_migration_file_name.php
• Reset the composer autoload files: composer dump-autoload
• Relax

If you did run the migration (php artisan migrate), you may do this:

• Manually delete the migration file under app/database/migrations/my_migration_file_name.php
• Reset the composer autoload files: composer dump-autoload
• Modify your database: Remove the last entry from the migrations table ``