Build A Forum with Laravel and TDD

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This project is an open source forum based on Laracasts' Let's Build a Forum with Laravel video series.

Main Features

• Users can browse threads by popularity, unanswered, and their own threads
• Users can filter/search threads by a keyword
• Users can subscribe to threads
• Users can create, edit, delete, and favorite comments
• Users can view their activity history

Screenshots

All Threads Page

Thread Page

New Thread

Profile Page

Installation

You must have PHP 7 installed as a prerequisite.

Step 1:

Clone this repository to your machine, and install all Composer dependencies.

git clone https://github.com/endonoh0/forum
cd forum && composer install
cp .env.example .env
php artisan key:generate
npm install && npm run dev
php artisan scout:import 'App\Thread'

Step 2:

Create a new database and reference its name and username/password within the project’s .env file.

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=

Step 3:

Migrate your database to create the required tables.

php artisan migrate:fresh --seed

Step 4:

Input any number of “channels” into the channels table in your database. Next, clear your server cache.

php artisan cache:clear

Step 5:

Visit http://forum.test/threads to create a new account and publish your first thread.

Dependencies

• PHP 7.x or above
• algoliasearch
• at.js
• font-awesome
• instantsearch.css
• vue-instantsearch
• cross-env
• axios
• laravel-mix
• minimist
• moment
• resolve-url-loader
• sass
• sass-loader
• vue
• vue-template-compiler