The biggest barrier to building a personal website and starting blogging is the initial friction. It takes a while to learn your way around, configure, set up and style a CMS, Jamstack platform or your own website and database. This can mean other priorities win and the journey is interrupted. Laravel Rapid removes this friction.
With Laravel Rapid you could start a timer and, in under 5 minutes from absolute zero, have a personalised website, dockerised with a fully migrated database and a permissioned micro CMS, good enough for you to go live and start comfortably blogging. Being a Laravel scaffold, your Rapid website will be infinitely expandable into a full fledged site, a web application or SAAS in a familiar way. Whatever journey you have in mind, Laravel Rapid could be its first fully deployable increment, that elusive first step.
Laravel Rapid uses a CLI command (rapid:site) to receive basic details from you and generate a personalised website with Controller, Routes and Views and a bundled, modified version of Wink micro CMS, accessed via login with your email address and encrypted password.
To take Rapid for a spin, download a new installation of Laravel by typing the following into your terminal:
curl -s https://laravel.build/rapidtest | bash
You can replace rapidtest with any name for your test app.
The command will download a new installation of Laravel, with a docker container through the Laravel Sail package.
When the download has ended, cd into your app folder, in the example above rapidtest/
Run the following command in your terminal:
bash vendor/bin/sail up'
This will power up the docker containers, making your app live on http://localhost.
Next, run
bash vendor/bin/sail composer require leamsi9/rapid'
This will install this package in your Laravel app.
Finally, run this command and answer the questions in your terminal.
bash vendor/bin/sail artisan rapid:site'
Go back to localhost and hard refresh, and you should be redirected to /blog with a template.
If you now go to localhost/wink you will be able to log in and write a blog post, that will appear on your localhost/blog page.
- Ismael Velasco - creator of Rapid
- Mohamed Said - created Wink , which is, with minor modifications, the CMS used by Rapid.
- All contributors
Contributions are extremely welcome, and there are a few good first issues.
Check the contribution guide.
Laravel Rapid is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.