Laravel Project-Central

laravel-project-central.mp4

This repository contains a simple Laravel application designed to help you track your projects, register new project ideas, and easily view your completed and active projects. It serves as a comprehensive demonstration and learning ground for core web development concepts.This repository contains a full-stack web application built with the Laravel PHP framework.

Project Overview

This application showcases the implementation of fundamental web application features within the Laravel ecosystem:

• Model-View-Controller (MVC) Architecture: The project is structured adhering strictly to the MVC design pattern, demonstrating clear separation of concerns for models, views, and controllers.
• CRUD Operations: Full Create, Read, Update, and Delete functionality is implemented for key resources, illustrating data persistence and manipulation with Eloquent ORM.
• User Authentication: A complete user authentication system is in place, covering registration, login, and session management to secure application access.
• User Authorization (Gates & Policies): Advanced access control is implemented using Laravel's powerful Gate and Policy features, ensuring users only interact with resources they are permitted to. This includes:
  • Defining granular permissions (e.g., resource ownership checks).
  • Integrating authorization seamlessly into routes and controller logic.
• Full-Stack Implementation: The application is a true full-stack solution, leveraging:
  • Laravel's Backend Infrastructure: For routing, controllers, database interactions (Eloquent ORM), and business logic.
  • Laravel Blade for Frontend: Dynamic and reusable views are crafted using Laravel's templating engine, Blade, providing a robust frontend experience directly within the Laravel application.

Technologies Used

• PHP: Core programming language
• Laravel Framework: Web application framework
• SQLite: Relational database management system
• Eloquent ORM: Laravel's powerful ORM for database interaction
• Laravel Blade: Templating engine for frontend views
• HTML, CSS, JavaScript: Standard web technologies
• Composer: PHP dependency manager
• npm: vite dependency

Getting Started

To set up and run this project locally, follow these steps:

1. Clone the repository:

    git clone  https://github.com/Code5mith/Laravel-Project-Central.git
    cd Laravel-Project-Central

2. Install PHP dependencies

   composer install

3. Install Node.js dependencies (if any frontend assets):

   npm install or yarn install  
   npm run dev or npm run build

4. Copy the environment file:

   cp .env.example .env

6. Configure your database:

    cd Laravel-Project-Central/database
    touch database.sqlite //create sqlite file

7. Run database migrations:

   php artisan migrate

8. Seed the database (Generate Demo Data with seeders ):

   php artisan db:seed 

9. Start the Laravel development server:

   php artisan serve

  The application will typically be available at http://127.0.0.1:8000.

License

The Laravel framework is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.