Tweety

A server side Twitter clone built to practice Laravel

Development

🛠 Prerequisites

• PHP 8+
• Laravel 8
• composer
• MySQL
• node & npm

⚙️ Setting Up

1. Install dependencies

   composer install
   

   npm install && npm run dev
   

2. Create a database called 'tweety' and add your credentials to your .env file

   cp .env.example .env
   

3. Generate your app key

   php artisan key:generate
   

4. Migrate the tables to your database

   php artisan migrate
   

5. Optional - add some dummy data with tinker and model factories.

   php artisan tinker
   

   App\Models\Tweet::factory()->count(10)->create()
   

6. Run the app in your local port

   php artisan serve