Quick setup Laravel (with Tailwind scaffold)

28 Jun, 2020

I often install a fresh Laravel app to test a new package or replicate the setup for a tutorial. This is the fastest way to get a vanilla Laravel with Auth and Tailwind. The first step is only required if you have not installed the Laravel installer before ($ means that you have to enter that to your terminal):

• ($ composer global require laravel/installer)
• $ laravel new project
• $ cd project && code . (opens in VSCode)
• Open .env
• Change DB_CONNECTION=mysql to DB_CONNECTION=sqlite
• Remove all lines not needed for SQLite: DB_HOST, DB_PORT, DB_DATABASE, DB_USERNAME and DB_PASSWORD
• $ touch database/database.sqlite to create the SQLite database
• $ composer require laravel-frontend-presets/tailwindcss --dev
• $ php artisan ui tailwindcss --auth to scaffold Tailwind frontend
• $ npm install && npm run dev to install the frontend
• $ php artisan migrate to migrate the database
• $ valet open or $ php artisan serve to open the site

Source: https://twitter.com/Martin_Betz/status/1256610649716723716

P.S. If you want to automate the installation and add Git and some more, you might find Tighten Co's Lambo useful.

Last Update: 2021-05-02

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