README

An opinionated base laravel install.

Install

composer create-project thisisdevelopment/laravel-base <dir>

Or alternatively if you don't have composer installed locally:

dir=<dir>
git clone https://github.com/thisisdevelopment/laravel-base $dir
cd $dir
rm -rf .git
./bin/dev init

Folder structure

This is modeled after the domain oriented structure proposed by sticher.io: https://stitcher.io/blog/laravel-beyond-crud-01-domain-oriented-laravel The proposed structure is extended with the concept of modules, which are default implementations of generic domain code.

The complete structure is

• app <= toplevel app dir, no code here
• app/App/<app name>/ <= application specific code
• app/Domain/<domain> <= domain specific code
• app/Domain/vendor/<domain> <= generic domain code (managed by composer, for packages with type=laravel-domain)
• app/Module/<module> <= module code (managed by composer, for packages with type=laravel-module)
• packages/<package>/ <= composer wil automatically pickup any packages in this directory. This allows to develop packages alongside your application (see packages/README.md)

It uses oomphinc/composer-installers-extender to install packages of type laravel-module/laravel-domain to the app/Module and app/Domain/vendor folders.

Docker compose support

This base install comes with a complete docker-compose setup out of the box. It assumes you have a working local docker install which allows access to docker for your own user.

To easily access the containers you should also run the thisisdevelopment/docker-hoster container (see https://github.com/thisisdevelopment/docker-hoster) to dynamically update your hosts file.

docker run --restart=unless-stopped -d \
    -v /var/run/docker.sock:/tmp/docker.sock \
    -v /etc/hosts:/tmp/hosts \
    thisisdevelopment/docker-hoster

Dev script

To easily access the containers you should use the included bin/dev script. This script allows for easy execution of composer etc inside your containers.

The supported commands are:

• up
• down
• rm
• deploy
• logs
• php-cli
• composer
• artisan
• phpcs
• phpcbf
• phpunit

Coding standards

This base install enforces the PSR-12 code standard. It does this by installing a git-hook which enforces this standard (by means of phpcs)

SSL/HTTPS

Linux

To enable HTTPs on (Ubuntu) Linux, the following steps need to be performed.

• generate local development certificate
• rename app-hostname.
• add nginx reverse proxy to docker-compose

To generate a certificate you'll need the tool mkcert (to generate the certificate) and libnss3-tools to automatically register this certificate in your browser (Firefox/Chrome). e.g. apt-get install mkcert libnss3-tools.

When installed, we can generate the certificate by running the following commands from project root, where app.services.docker needs to be replaced with the value from your .env's APP_DOMAIN.

mkcert -key-file ./docker/services/app/certs/ssl.key -cert-file ./docker/services/app/certs/ssl.crt app.services.docker

Next, we need to add an additional service to the docker-stack, allowing us to use SSL. If not present already, create a docker-compose.override.yml at project root, and add the following.

services:
  nginx:
    image: nginx:latest
    hostname: $APP_DOMAIN
    depends_on:
      - app
    volumes:
      - ./docker/services/app/certs/:/etc/nginx/ssl
      - ./docker/services/app/nginx-ssl.conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d/app.services.docker.conf

  app:
    hostname: "" # this needs to be set to empty (or anything not APP_DOMAIN) to prevent collision with new nginx

Now you'll need to restart the entire stack with a ./bin/dev down && ./bin/dev up. At this point the app should be available through https on the original domain.

Mac

Probably the easiest way to get https working is by using Orbstack using these instructions.

Environment

For both Linux and Mac you need to set VITE_APP_ORIGIN to a url that includes https in the .env file.:

• VITE_APP_ORIGIN=https://${APP_DOMAIN}

Everything should work out of the box if you've followed the steps above, but you might need to update these environment variables in your .env as well:

• APP_HTTPS=true
• APP_DOMAIN=https://${APP_DOMAIN}