A technical assignment of a blogging platform. This application was developed using PHP 8.1, Laravel framework, Inertia Vue and Tailwind CSS.

To setup this project, follow these steps below

• Clone project repository

git clone https://github.com/menadio/blogsquare.git

• Enter project directory

cd blogsquare

• Install project dependencies

composer install

• In project root, copy .env.example to .env and set the values for admin name, email, password, mysql and redis credentials as you wish

cp .env.example .env

• Generate an application key for the project with the command below

php artisan key:generate

• Seed some data into your database

php artisan migrate --seed

• Install frontend dependencies

npm install

Before starting the application, we will need to monitor our redis queues using Horizon and run scheduled task hourly.

• Start horizon for monitoring queues with the command below

php artisan horizon

• Start schedule worker

php artisan schedule:work

• Finally start the application with

npm run dev

We can test the application by running some test with this command

php artisan test

For quick set up, you can use Sail package. All you have to do is run the command

php artisan sail:install

Then select mysql' and redis` from the service list. Once that is done, start the containers with any of the commands below

./vendor/bin/sail up

or

docker-compose up -d

Remember to install project and node dependencies and serve the application with npm run dev