Laravel 5.0 Boilerplate With Bower, BrowserSync, Bootstrap-SASS and Mailcatcher

This is the Laravel 5.0 boilerplate I work with on my internal projects. It includes:

• Bower for front end package management. Files are placed in the /resources/assets/bower directory
• BrowserSync for rapid application development and testing. See below for setup instructions.
• Bootstrap-SASS - prefer SASS implementation over LESS, installed via bower and can be easily removed.
• Mailcatcher - Catches outbound email - see below for usage instructions.
• Standard files - CHANGELOG.md and README.md

It is intended to be used with Homestead, but should be fairly compatible across any VM / LAMP installation.

Project Setup and Usage

To use this boilerplate, do the following:

1. Clone the repo.
2. Alter CHANGELOG.md and README.md.
3. Update gulpfile.js with correct hostname for site.
4. Copy .env.example file to .env and update vars as appropriate.
5. SSH into installation
6. Run $ ./setup.sh to setup Mailcatcher
7. Run $ composer install to load project PHP dependancies
8. Run $ npm install to install Node dependancies.
9. Run $ gulp watch to start developing.
10. To run Mailcatcher - $ mailcatcher --ip 192.168.10.10

Version

1.0.0