Basic Laravel Project Scaffolding

Basic Laravel 5.1 project scaffolding with Gulp, Bower, LESS, & Bootstrap.

Overview

This project helps speed up the process of setting up a simple Laravel 5.1 project. It configures Bower, Gulp, and Bootstrap automatically in a maintainable way. It strives to keep vendor files seperate from project files and uses programming best practices where possible.

Project Tree

There are a few minor alterations from a standard Laravel installation. Most importantly, we keep our Bower components outside of our project and in /vendor/bower_components. They will be imported and overriden with the help of LESS and Gulp, ensuring that we won't have to make any drastic code changes if we want to update a component.

.
├── resources
|   └── assets
|   	├── js
|   	|   └── application.js
|   	└── less
|       	├── application.less
|			├── bootstrap.less
|       	└── variables.less
|
├── public
|   └── assets
|       ├── css
|		├── fonts
|		├── images
|       └── js
|
└── vendor
    └── bower_components

Getting Started

Prerequirements: You must have Composer and Node.js installed on your system. You should also install Bower and Gulp globally (npm install -g bower gulp).

1. Run composer update to download and install composer packages
2. Rename .env.example to .env (mv .env.example .env) and then run php artisan key:generate
3. Install node packages with npm install. This will automatically run bower install and gulp once it has finished.
4. Run gulp watch and start developing