Read Marvel

ReadMarvel.com is a fan made website. It is built entirely on Laravel 5. All data is provided by Marvel through their public Marvel API. You can see the website fully functioning here: http://readmarvel.com/ You can read more about it on their official website

Requirements

• Nginx
• MySQL
• Redis server
• Composer
• Marvel Developer account
• Mailgun account (or your favourite e-mail service)
• Google ReCaptcha account
• (optional) Google Analytics account (if you are going to use GA)
• (optional) PhantomJS (for running the Codeception tests)

Project setup

• Register in http://developer.marvel.com to get your API keys (you'll use it later)
• Setup Vagrant with Homestead (https://laravel.com/docs/5.3/homestead)
• Setup redis server on your Homestead environment
• Create a new MySQL database in Homestead (ex. "marvel")
• Navigate to the project root in Homestead and run composer install
• Rename the .env.example file to .env
• Open your .env file and replace the placeholder values with your custom values
• Run php artisan migrate --seed
• Pay attention to the console messages. A message with your admin user should appear in the console
• Setup a vhost (ex. marvel.dev. This step will vary depending on your OS)
• Open your newly setup vhost in your browser

Contributing

• Fork the project;
• Branch off develop;
• Commit and push;
• Make a PR to the original project;

License

The "ReadMarvel.com" web app is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license;