alo0oz / medium

A remake of Medium's March 2016 website (medium.com), built in Laravel and AngularJS.

Medium

This is a Medium.com clone. I built it in AngularJS and Laravel, and it took about 2-3 months.

Check out the walk-through here.

Features

• users
• profiles (settings, update profile, etc.)
• stories (drafts, published stories, unpublished stories, etc.)
• categories
• global search (users, stories, categories, etc.)
• and more

Getting Started

First, clone the repository and cd into it:

git clone https://github.com/lansana/medium
cd medium

Next, update and install with composer:

composer update --no-scripts
composer install

Next, create a .env file off of the .env.example and set the APP_KEY variable to the result of the following command:

php artisan key:generate

Next, edit the .env file to hold your MySQL database credentials/host information.

Lastly, run the following command to migrate your database using the credentials:

php artisan migrate

You should now be able to start the server using php artisan serve --port=80 and go to http://localhost to view the app!

UI Development

In order to develop in the UI, you will need to install the node modules"

npm install

Once you do that, you can use gulp watch to rebuild the front end assets when developing, and gulp --production to bundle a production-ready asset bundle.

Architecture Overview

The whole app is a single page application, using a REST API built in PHP.

Data storage in MySQL.

Authentication is done using a JWT.

The front end is composed of modules, such that everything is done once and reused in multiple places. I also use Gulp for build automation.

Contributing

Feel free to contribute to anything~ There are plenty of small bugs that I am aware of but have forgotten to take care of. Go ahead and make the first pull request to fix them. ;)