Installation

To setup the Hexadash in local environment, follow below-mentioned steps:

Install Prerequisites

Make sure to have all above prerequisites installed & running on your computer.

Prerequisites

Laravel has a set of requirements in order to run smoothly in specific environment. Please see requirements section in Laravel documentation.

Please follow below steps to install and setup all prerequisites:

• XAMPP

  Make sure to have the XAMPP installed & running in your computer. If you already have installed Xampp on your computer, you can skip this step if your existing xampp version is 7.4 or greater than.

• Composer

  Make sure to have the Composer installed & running in your computer.

After you finished with the above steps, you can run the following commands to run the Laravel Admin Dashboard in local environment:

Command	Description
composer install	command to install all of the framework's dependencies.
.env	The root directory of your application will contain an .env.example file. You should copy the file manually and rename it to .env or run command cp .env.example .env
Please run the below command to generate the new key. php artisan key:generate
Please fill your DB credentials in the .env file. DB_CONNECTION=mysql DB_HOST=127.0.0.1 DB_PORT=3306 DB_DATABASE=hexadash_laravel DB_USERNAME=root DB_PASSWORD=
php artisan migrate	This will migrate the database tables. For more details visit https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/migrations
Xampp Start	Xampp start the connection of mysql database.
php artisan serve	Navigate to generated server url http://127.0.0.1:8000

Webpack Setup

Follow these steps to set up Webpack for your project:

1. Open the terminal in the root folder of your project.
2. Install NPM Packages by running:

npm install

To run Webpack for development:

npm run watch

To run Webpack for production:

npm run prod

Template Adjustment

Follow these steps to adjust your templates for development and production:

Step 1: Remove .min extension from css/app file during development and add it again when in production.

Path: resources/views/partials/_header.blade.php

Step 2: Remove .min extension from js/app file during development and add it again when in production.

Path: resources/views/layout/app.blade.php