Well hi there! This repository holds the code and script for the API Platform course on SymfonyCasts.
If you've just downloaded the code, congratulations!!
To get it working, follow these steps:
Download Composer dependencies
Make sure you have Composer installed and then run:
composer install
You may alternatively need to run php composer.phar install, depending
on how you installed Composer.
Configure the .env (or .env.local) File
Open the .env file and make any adjustments you need - specifically
DATABASE_URL. Or, if you want, you can create a .env.local file
and override any configuration you need there (instead of changing
.env directly).
Setup the Database
Again, make sure .env is setup for your computer. Then, create
the database & tables!
php bin/console doctrine:database:create
php bin/console doctrine:migrations:migrate
If you get an error that the database exists, that should
be ok. But if you have problems, completely drop the
database (doctrine:database:drop --force) and try again.
Compiling Webpack Encore Assets
This tutorial uses Webpack Encore, which isn't important to understand what's going on, but is important to get our app running. We'll also do a little bit of JavaScript coding to talk to our API.
Make sure to install Node and also yarn. Then run:
yarn install
yarn encore dev --watch
Start the built-in web server
You can use Nginx or Apache, but Symfony's local web server works even better.
To install the Symfony local web server, follow "Downloading the Symfony client" instructions found here: https://symfony.com/download - you only need to do this once on your system.
Then, to start the web server, open a terminal, move into the project, and run:
symfony serve
(If this is your first time using this command, you may see an
error that you need to run symfony server:ca:install first).
Now check out the site at https://localhost:8000
Have fun!
If you have suggestions or questions, please feel free to open an issue on this repository or comment on the course itself. We're watching both :).
And as always, thanks so much for your support and letting us do what we love!
<3 Your friends at SymfonyCasts