Blog App

Laravel blog app. Note: This is a WIP Repository.

Setup :

• Type git clone https://github.com/pfieffer/LaravelBlogApp.git or git clone git@github.com:pfieffer/LaravelBlogApp.git to clone the repository.
• CD to LaravelBlogApp
• Type composer install
• Type composer update
• Copy .env.example to .env
• To use MySQL database, set the following in .env file :
  • set DB_CONNECTION
  • set DB_DATABASE
  • set DB_USERNAME
  • set DB_PASSWORD
• Run DB migrations and seeders: Type php artisan migrate --seed to create and populate tables. This will seed the datbase with some sample posts and a user. (User Credentials: email: test@test.com, password: test@123)
• Run php artisan key:generate to generate application keys.
• Run php artisan passport:install to setup Passport for api authentication.
• You may need to run php artisan storage:link to see the blog post images.
• Also do put an image file with name noimage.jpg inside storage/app/public/cover_images/ directory.

See api in action:

• Open your favorite REST client like POSTMAN or insomnia.
• GET request on <localhosts_or_your_ip_address_and_port>/api/v1/allposts to see all posts
• POST request on <localhosts_or_your_ip_address_and_port>/api/v1/login with the following JSON body:

{
	"email":"test@test.com",
	"password":"test@123"
}

• After the login, you will obtain an api_token which you can use to CRUD the post from api.
• An example is to see all the post for a user: GET request to <localhosts_or_your_ip_address_and_port>/api/v1/posts with a Authorization header having value Bearer <api_token_obtained_on_loggin_in>

Some screenshots of the app: