Simple Contact Book

Contact book is a simple app written in Laravel as part of the technical assessment for a job interview. To compile, please run the following steps:

Create GitHub app, obtain API keys
Create Facebook app, obtain API keys
Register for a trial account at ActiveCampaign and/or obtain API keys
SSH into a local/dev server
Install php, apache, mysql
Create mysql database (contactbook), user and password
Clone/upload project to the server
Install composer and run composer update (check to make sure that all of the required php extension are installed)
Install nodejs version 8 (default node that comes with Ubuntu will not work as it is version 4; likewise the latest version 9+ will not work either)
Copy .env.example config file and rename to .env. Update the values
Run php artisan migrate
Run npm install
Run npm run production
Configure apache virtual host to point to public project folder
Enable mod_rewrite with a2enmod rewrite
Restart apache service with sudo service apache2 restart
Access the app via a pre-configured URL. DEMO

Author

Paul Brighton, Jan 2018