Use Composer and npm to install PHP and JS dependencies. Then copy your details to the .env file, using .env.example as a template.

composer install
npm install

Generate a unique key for Laravel's cipher.

php artisan key:generate

Generate a secret key for our API. The output of this command is the only time the key is shown in plain text (but it can be regenerated at any point).

php artisan api:generate

php artisan migrate 

We use gulp for our dev build process. It starts browserify on localhost:3000.

gulp watch