APPLICATION DEPLOYMENT STEPS ON LOCAL DEVELOPMENT SERVER

1. COMPOSER INSTALLATION

Source:

• https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md
• https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md
• https://github.com/composer/composer

Composer is a popular dependency management tool for PHP, created mainly to facilitate installation and updates for project dependencies. It allows you to declare the libraries your project depends on and it will manage(install/update) them for you in a directory (e.g. 'vendor' inside your project).

1. Re-synchronize the package index files from their sources.

   sudo apt-get update

2. Run the following commands on current/appropriate directory.

   a. Install composer.

   sudo apt-get install composer

   b. NOTE: The following command did not work.

   curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer -o composer-setup.php

   See Github Issue

   c. Check installation

   composer --version should give something similar as Composer 1.10.1 2020-03-13 20:34:27

   d. Checking the location of Composer's global packages.

   php /usr/bin/composer config --list --global should display something similar as

    [repositories.packagist.org.type] composer
    [repositories.packagist.org.url] https?://repo.packagist.org
    [repositories.packagist.org.allow_ssl_downgrade] true
    [process-timeout] 300
    [use-include-path] false
    [preferred-install] auto
    [notify-on-install] true
    [github-protocols] [https, ssh]
    [vendor-dir] vendor (/home/sandeep/vendor)
    [bin-dir] {$vendor-dir}/bin (/home/sandeep/vendor/bin)
    [cache-dir] /home/sandeep/.cache/composer
    [data-dir] /home/sandeep/.local/share/composer
    [cache-files-dir] {$cache-dir}/files (/home/sandeep/.cache/composer/files)
    [cache-repo-dir] {$cache-dir}/repo (/home/sandeep/.cache/composer/repo)
    [cache-vcs-dir] {$cache-dir}/vcs (/home/sandeep/.cache/composer/vcs)
    [cache-ttl] 15552000
    [cache-files-ttl] 15552000
    [cache-files-maxsize] 300MiB (314572800)
    [bin-compat] auto
    [discard-changes] false
    [autoloader-suffix]
    [sort-packages] false
    [optimize-autoloader] false
    [classmap-authoritative] false
    [apcu-autoloader] false
    [prepend-autoloader] true
    [github-domains] [github.com]
    [bitbucket-expose-hostname] true
    [disable-tls] false
    [secure-http] true
    [cafile]
    [capath]
    [github-expose-hostname] true
    [gitlab-domains] [gitlab.com]
    [store-auths] prompt
    [archive-format] tar
    [archive-dir] .
    [htaccess-protect] true
    [use-github-api] true
    [lock] true
    [home] /home/sandeep/.config/composer     
   

   The [home] line refers to the default value of $COMPOSER_HOME.

2. LARAVEL INSTALLATION

Source:

• https://laravel.com/docs/7.x#server-requirements
• https://github.com/laravel/laravel

Laravel is a free, open-source PHP web framework, created by Taylor Otwell and intended for the development of web applications following the model–view–controller architectural pattern and based on Symfony. Laravel utilizes Composer to manage its dependencies. So, before using Laravel, make sure you have Composer installed on your machine.

NOTE: An account creation at Packagist may be required.

1. Download the Laravel installer using Composer.

   composer global require laravel/installer

NOTE:

• The global parameter allows running commands in the global composer dir ($COMPOSER_HOME).

• The following error message may come up on executing composer global require laravel/installer

"https://repo.packagist.org/packages.json" file could not be downloaded: failed to open stream: Connection refused

FIX: sudo vim /etc/resolv.conf and add the following lines:

nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4`

Save the file and restart the network.

3. Node.js® INSTALLATION

Source:

• https://nodejs.org/en/
• https://github.com/nodejs

Node.js® is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. As an asynchronous event-driven JavaScript runtime, Node.js is designed to build scalable network applications.

1. Install Node.js

   sudo apt-get install nodejs

2. Check installation.

   nodejs -v should display something similar to v10.19.0

4. npm INSTALLATION

Source:

• https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/npm
• https://github.com/npm/npm

npm is the package manager for the Node JavaScript platform. It puts modules in place so that node can find them, and manages dependency conflicts intelligently.

1. Install npm

sudo apt-get install npm

2. Check installation

npm -v should display something similar to 6.14.4

3. See npm-config for much much more information.

5. PROJECT DEPLOYMENT AND APPLICATION RUN ON SERVER

COMMANNDS TO RUN:

1. git clone https://github.com/cadentic/business_landing_v1.git

Clone this repository locally on an appropriate path.

2. composer install

Installs the project dependencies from the composer.lock file if present, or falls back on the composer.json.

3. npm install

npm install downloads a package and it's dependencies. When run without arguments,npm install downloads dependencies defined in a package(a folder containing a program described by a package.json file)

4. php artisan route:clear

To clear route cache of the Laravel application. This will display : Route cache cleared!

5. php artisan config:clear

To clear config cache of the Laravel application. This will display : Configuration cache cleared!

6. php artisan cache:clear

To clear application cache of Laravel application. This will display : Application cache cleared!

7. npm run watch

Combines all Vue components and other JavaScript files into a browser-friendly combined file. Then it stays active and "watches" for updates to all .vue and .js files. If it detects a change, it'll re-build the browser-friendly file so you can just refresh the page.

8. php artisan serve

To run this application on the development server.