Background

Busy messing around conceptually with Laravel regarding a legacy app that needs to be rewritten. I'm here to learn from the community and provide a useful tool to get a project up and running.

Mildly Interesting

Managed to get pjax working, which makes the views load pretty quickly.

Have a look at in the browser developer tools -> network section

After a menu option is selected a second time, a minimal amount of assets are loaded.

Hence I don't minify any assets due to the layout not been reloaded

Additional tabs only load their content upon request

What I think could be much better

Rather use
https://github.com/spatie/laravel-permission https://github.com/santigarcor/laratrust

Instead of

https://github.com/cartalyst/sentinel (seems outdated )

Implement

https://laravelcollective.com/docs/master/annotations Routes seem to get out of hand

https://github.com/yajra/laravel-datatables Instead of Kendo UI

• Change gulp / bower stuff to webpack
• Move models to their own folder.
• Implement Community Suggestions Implement PHP 7 syntax
• Implement better Laravel methodologies (e.g. relationships, scopes, helpers etc.)
• Add Tests (Unit / Dusk)

Installation

• copy .env.example as .env
• composer install
• php artisan key:generate
• create mysql database
• change database settings
• php artisan migrate --seed
• php artisan ide-helper:generate

username: [email protected]
password: Abc123

Optional

npm install
bower update

Kendo UI

This is a trial version of their product. You'd need to purchase the full version if you want to use it commercially.