Laravel React App

Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax.

React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces.

App Documentation

-[Description] -[Installation] -[Setup] -[Connect React frontend to Laravel backend] -[Frontend] -[Backend] -[Running the app] -[Frontend] -[Backend]

Description

• Laravel Framework is used to build the backend of the app.
• React Library is used to build the frontend of the app.

Installation

• Install Laravel Via Composer Create-Project as such composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel laravel-react-app.
• Install react from within laravel-react-app root dir Via create-react-app which is a global command-line utility that you use to create new projects as such create-react-app frontend.

Setup

Connect React frontend to Laravel backend

Frontend

Add this line of code to your package.json file "proxy": "http://localhost:8000/" to make a connection between the backend server running at port: 8000.

Backend

To avoid running into CORS Security issue e.g No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. caused by a browser making a request to the backend which is in turn another domain, do the following;

• Install laravel-cors CORs package as such composer require "barryvdh/laravel-cors" -Add the Cors\ServiceProvider to config/app.php provider's array as such Barryvdh\Cors\ServiceProvider::class
• To allow CORS for all your routes, add the HandleCors middleware in the $middleware property of app/Http/Kernel.php class as such \Barryvdh\Cors\HandleCors::class
• Now publish the config using the command php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Barryvdh\Cors\ServiceProvider"

Running the app

Frontend

From the app's frontend dir

`npm start`

Runs the app in the development mode.
Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in the browser.

The page will reload if you make edits.
You will also see any lint errors in the console.

`npm run build`

Builds the app for production to the build folder.
It correctly bundles React in production mode and optimizes the build for the best performance.

The build is minified and the filenames include the hashes.
Your app is ready to be deployed!

Backend

From the app's root dir, run

`php artisan serve`

Boom!!!!! App ready to go.

License

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