Laravel.io

This is the repository for the Laravel.io community portal. The code is entirely open source and licensed under the MIT license. We welcome your contributions but we encourage you to read the contributing guide before creating an issue or sending in a pull request. Read the installation guide below to get started with setting up the app on your machine.

Sponsors

We'd like to thank these amazing companies for sponsoring us. If you are interested in becoming a sponsor, please visit the Laravel.io GitHub Sponsors page.

• Eventy
• Forge
• Envoyer
• Fathom
• Tinkerwell
• BairesDev
• N-iX
• PDFinity
• Lorka AI

Requirements

The following tools are required in order to start the installation.

• PHP 8.5
• Node.js 24
• Composer
• NPM

Installation

Note that you're free to adjust the ~/Sites/laravel.io location to any directory you want on your machine.

1. Clone this repository with git clone [email protected]:laravelio/laravel.io.git ~/Sites/laravel.io
2. Run composer install to install the PHP dependencies
3. Set up a local database called laravel
4. Run composer setup to setup the application
5. Set up a working e-mail driver like Mailtrap
6. Run php artisan serve to start the local development server
7. Create a testing database in MySQL so you can run the test suite
8. Configure the (optional) features from below

You can now visit the app in your browser by visiting http://localhost:8000. If you seeded the database you can login into a test account with testing & password.

GitHub Authentication (optional)

To get GitHub authentication to work locally, you'll need to register a new OAuth application on GitHub. Use http://localhost:8000 for the homepage url and http://localhost:8000/auth/github for the callback url. When you've created the app, fill in the ID and secret in your .env file in the env variables below. You should now be able to authentication with GitHub.

GITHUB_ID=
GITHUB_SECRET=
GITHUB_URL=http://localhost:8000/auth/github

Algolia Search (optional)

To get Algolia search running locally, you'll need to register for a new account and create an index called threads. Algolia has a free tier that satisfies all of the requirements needed for a development environment. Now update the below variables in your .env file. The App ID and secret keys can be found in the API Keys section of the Algoila UI.

SCOUT_DRIVER=algolia
SCOUT_QUEUE=true

ALGOLIA_APP_ID=
ALGOLIA_SECRET="Use the Write API Key"

VITE_ALGOLIA_APP_ID="${ALGOLIA_APP_ID}"
VITE_ALGOLIA_SECRET="Use the Search API Key"

VITE_ALGOLIA_THREADS_INDEX=threads
VITE_ALGOLIA_ARTICLES_INDEX=articles
VITE_ALGOLIA_USERS_INDEX=users

In order to index your existing threads, run the following command:

php artisan scout:import App\\Models\\Thread

New threads will be automatically added to the index and threads which get updated will be automatically synced. If you need to flush your index and start again, you can run the following command:

php artisan scout:flush App\\Models\\Thread

Social Media Sharing (optional)

To enable published articles to be automatically shared on X, you'll need to create an app. Once the app has been created, update the below variables in your .env file. The consumer key and secret and access token and secret can be found in the Keys and tokens section of the X developers UI.

TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY=
TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET=
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN=
TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET=

To do the same for Bluesky you simply need to set up the app keys with your login and password:

BLUESKY_USERNAME=
BLUESKY_PASSWORD=

Approved articles are shared in the order they were submitted for approval. Articles are shared twice per day at 14:00 and 18:00 UTC. Once an article has been shared, it will not be shared again.

Telegram Notifications (optional)

Laravel.io can notify maintainers of newly submitted articles through Telegram. For this to work, you'll need to set up a Telegram bot and obtain a token. Then, configure the channel you want to send new article messages to.

TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN=
TELEGRAM_CHANNEL=

Fathom Analytics (optional)

To enable view counts on articles, you'll need to register a Fathom Analytics account and install it on the site. You will then need to create an API token and find your site ID before updating the below environment variables in your .env file.

FATHOM_SITE_ID=
FATHOM_TOKEN=

Unsplash (optional)

To make sure article and user header images get synced into the database we'll need to setup an access key from Unsplash. Please note that your Unsplash app requires production access.

UNSPLASH_ACCESS_KEY=

After that you can add an Unsplash photo ID to any article row in the hero_image_id column and run the sync command to fetch the image url and author data:

php artisan lio:sync-article-images

Commands

Command	Description
vendor/bin/pest -p	Run the tests with parallel execution
php artisan migrate:fresh --seed	Reset the database
npm run dev	Build and watch for changes in CSS and JS files

Maintainers

The Laravel.io portal is currently maintained by Dries Vints and Joe Dixon. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to create an issue on this repo.

Contributing

Please read the contributing guide before creating an issue or sending in a pull request.

Code of Conduct

Please read our Code of Conduct before contributing or engaging in discussions.

Security Vulnerabilities

Please review our security policy on how to report security vulnerabilities.

License

The MIT License. Please see the license file for more information.