Step by step guide to set-up a new Laravel application. This workflow ensures that the application repository continue to pull changes from the laravel/laravel repository. Very important! Always git-pull changes from the laravel repository before doing a composer update.

Setup-a-Laraval-application-using-Git.md

Setup a Laravel application using Git - Chapter 1

Setup Laravel App, preserving framework updates

MINIMUM_ARGS=1
E_BADARGS=65
#bash_scripts/newLaravelApp.sh

#Use to clear existing folder completely
rm -rfI * .env* .git*

#git config --global user.name "Johan Meyer"
#git config --global user.email y-core@outlook.com
#
# If git-flow is not installed on the homestead box
#
# [Try either]
# sudo apt-get install git-flow
#
# [Or]
# wget -q – http://github.com/nvie/gitflow/raw/develop/contrib/gitflow-installer.sh –no-check-certificate
# sudo chmod a+x gitflow-installer.sh
# sudo ./gitflow-installer.sh

#check if args are specified
if [ $# -lt $MINIMUM_ARGS ]; then
    echo "Usage: $0 <Owner/repository> - example: $0 Yzone/strava "
    exit $E_BADARGS
fi

git init

# git remote add origin https://bitbucket.org/$1.git
git remote add origin https://github.com/$1.git

#git remote add -t master -f framework https://github.com/laravel/laravel.git
#the -f option above fetches automatically
git remote add -t master framework https://github.com/laravel/laravel.git
git fetch framework
git checkout -b laravel --track framework/master

git checkout -b master
git flow init -d

git checkout develop

composer install -o

cp .env.example .env
php artisan key:generate

echo "--------------------------------------------------------------------------"
echo "                     Setup of net Laravel App complete                    "
echo "--------------------------------------------------------------------------"
echo "-  Added repository https://github.com/$1 as branch [master]              "
echo "-  Added repository https://github.com/laravel/laravel as branch [laravel]"
echo ""
echo "-  Initialized git flow                                                   "
echo ""
echo "-  Installed composer                                                     "
echo "-  Generated artisan:key                                                  "
echo "--------------------------------------------------------------------------"
echo "                         Next Steps                                       "
echo "--------------------------------------------------------------------------"
echo " - Add existing local repository to Sourcetree                            "
echo " - Push updates to remote repository                                      "
echo "--------------------------------------------------------------------------"

Update .env

php artisan key:generate

Update readme.md

Update the README.MD file with the application readme content

Create mySql database

#bash_scripts/sqlCreate.sh

BTICK='`'
EXPECTED_ARGS=3
E_BADARGS=65
MYSQL="/usr/bin/mysql"

Q1="CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS ${BTICK}$1${BTICK};"
Q2="GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON ${BTICK}$1${BTICK}.* TO '$2'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY '$3' WITH GRANT OPTION;";
Q3="FLUSH PRIVILEGES;"
Q4="SHOW SCHEMAS;"
Q5="SELECT USER,HOST FROM mysql.user;"
Q6="SHOW GRANTS FOR $2;"

SQL="${Q1}${Q2}${Q3}${Q4}${Q5}${Q6}"

if [ $# -ne $EXPECTED_ARGS ]
then
echo "Usage: $0 dbname dbuser dbpass"
exit $E_BADARGS
fi

$MYSQL -uroot -p -e "$SQL"

Once database is created, update the .env file with the database credentials

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=homestead
DB_USERNAME=homestead
DB_PASSWORD=secret

Scaffold Laravel authentication

php artisan make:auth
php artisan migrate