ket-c / laravel-vue-weather-app

Laravel-Vue-Weather-App

In order to get the weather api to work, you will need API key from Weather API. Signup to obtain API KEY

Installation

API

• Navigate to /api folder
• Ensure version docker installed is active on host
• Copy .env.example: cp .env.example .env
• Start docker containers docker compose up (add -d to run detached)
• Connect to container to run commands: docker exec -it fullstack-challenge-app-1 bash
  • Make sure you are in the /var/www/html path
  • Install php dependencies: composer install
  • Setup app key: php artisan key:generate
  • Migrate database: php artisan migrate
  • Seed database: php artisan db:seed
  • Run tests: php artisan test
  • Run app: php artisan serve
• Visit api: http://localhost -Run Scheduler : php artisan schedule:work
  • Or you can manually run php artisan weather:refresh
  • Run queue eg. php artisan queue:work --max-time=300

Add these to you .env file, and replace {KEY} with your api key obtained from Weather API

WEATHER_BASE_ENDPOINT= 'https://api.weatherapi.com/v1/'

WEATHER_API_KEY="{KEY}"

Frontend

• Navigate to /frontend folder
• Replace http://127.0.0.0:8000 in /src/components/ApiTest.vue with the domain and host of the API
• Install javascript dependencies: npm install
• Run frontend: npm run dev
• Visit frontend: http://localhost:5173