About Twitter Clone Laravel Project from LARACAST

I later found out the original source code at >> https://github.com/laracasts/Tweety

To run my partially built laravel project

• cd into the "twiggytweet" directory
• run in the terminal >>

composer install

• change .env.example to .env
• change the database name, user and password ,run >>

php artisan key:generate

• to create the tables, run >>

php artisan migrate

• boot the server run >>

php artisan serve

• tinker it is a repl (read-eval-print loop). A repl translates to read-eval-print-loop , and it is an interactive language shell, run >>

php artisan tinker

• run the UserFactory.php to seed the db with 2 users run >>

factory('App\User',2)->create();

• run the TweetFactory.php to seed the db with 3 tweets, run >>

factory('App\Tweet',3)->create(['user_id'=>1]);

That's it!