Scotchbox

Scotchbox is a simple shoutbox built for https://scotch.io which demonstrates the use of Laravel's event system.

Setup

Create .env file and add the required basic configurations

APP_ENV=local
APP_DEBUG=true
APP_KEY=SomeRandomKey!!!

DB_HOST=db_host
DB_DATABASE=db_name
DB_USERNAME=db_user
DB_PASSWORD=db_password

PUSHER_KEY=pusher_key
PUSHER_SECRET=pusher_secret
PUSHER_APP_ID=pusher_app_id

After that, run the following artisan commands

php artisan migrate

Finally serve the application and view from your web browser at the specified host and port

php artisan serve

Enjoy.