updating to have db connection and index route

README.md

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # Steps to Create and Deploy
 
+## Initialize
+
 - Make sure you have MAMP and Postgres installed and running
 - Download comopser: https://getcomposer.org/composer-stable.phar
 - In Terminal, run:
@@ -16,3 +18,47 @@
 - `cd` into your app's dir
 - run `php artisan serve`
 - go to http://localhost:8000/
+
+## Connect to db
+
+Connect to psql and
+
+```
+CREATE DATABASE contacts;
+\c contacts
+CREATE TABLE people (id SERIAL, name VARCHAR(16), age INT);
+INSERT INTO people (name, age) VALUES ('matt', 40);
+```
+
+In `.env` file, adjust the following:
+
+```
+DB_CONNECTION=mysql
+DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
+DB_PORT=3306
+DB_DATABASE=laravel
+DB_USERNAME=root
+DB_PASSWORD=
+```
+
+so it is:
+
+```
+DB_CONNECTION=pgsql
+DB_HOST=localhost
+DB_PORT=5432
+DB_DATABASE=contacts
+DB_USERNAME=matthuntington
+DB_PASSWORD=
+```
+
+## Create routes
+
+In `routes/api.php` add:
+
+```php
+Route::get('people', function () {
+    $users = DB::select('SELECT * FROM people');
+    return $users;
+});
+```

routes/api.php

@@ -17,3 +17,8 @@ use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
 Route::middleware('auth:api')->get('/user', function (Request $request) {
     return $request->user();
 });
+
+Route::get('people', function () {
+    $users = DB::select('SELECT * FROM people');
+    return $users;
+});