Build a New App with Laravel and EmberJS in Vagrant

Nowadays, everything is turning into a web application. Even simple websites have a mobile app relying on a REST Api. Web applications are accessible everywhere - on a laptop, desktop, tablet, mobile, and recently on wearable devices like smartwatches. Everything is becoming smaller and faster - front ends are becoming separated from back ends, and only communicate with the server through APIs.

What will we be building?

In these series, we are going to create a photo uploading app. For the front-end, we will use EmberJs and Foundation 5. EmberJs is a front-end framework featuring good integration with REST Apis. Foundation 5 will help us make a fast prototype of our front end. For hosting, we will use Heroku’s free tier (for more information about PHP on Heroku, see here). For the back-end, we will use Laravel. The source code will be available per-part, and in final shape in the final part of this series. You can download the code for part 1 here.

Let’s get started

A good way to start a new project in PHP is using Vagrant. Vagrant gives us the space to experiment a lot from project to project. I can have different PHP versions if I want with Apache for one project, Nginx for another. If something goes bad, I revert all my work and simply vagrant up after that - and I never pollute my host operating system with various other installations.

The easiest way to get started is by following this quick tip, which will take you through a fast installation process and show you a working Laravel app in a matter of minutes so you can start hacking away. If you’re still not convinced why you should use Homestead and Vagrant, see here.

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