After you clone this project, do the following:
1. go into the project
cd laravel-admin-lte
2. install composer dependencies
composer install
or
composer update
3. generate a key for your application
php artisan key:generate
4. create a .env file
cp .env.example .env
5. create a local MySQL database (make sure you have MySQL up and running)
mysql -u root -p
> create database db_name;
> exit;
6. add the database connection config to your .env file
DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_DATABASE=db_name
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=
7. run the migration files to generate the schema
php artisan migrate
8. install npm dependencies
npm install && npm run dev
9. php artisan serve
Visit http://127.0.0.1:8000 your browser