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:

  • mv ~/Downloads/composer-stable.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
  • chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/composer
  • composer global require laravel/installer
  • echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
  • ls /Applications/MAMP/bin/php and take note of the most recent version
  • run echo 'export PATH="/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php7.4.2/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile substituting your latest version of php for php7.4.2

• close terminal window and open a new one

• go to where you want your app to be and run laravel new blog substituting the name of your app for blog

• 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:

Route::get('people', function () {
    $users = DB::select('SELECT * FROM people');
    return $users;
});