Installing Laravel 5.5 On CodeAnywhere

CodeAnywhere is a great cloud IDE to create web apps but it lacks that latest install of Laravel. So I used the latest PHP stack as my base and then installed the latest version of Laravel 5.5 with additional packages.

Basic Steps to Install Laravel 5.5

Create a new Container (Hook up a Bitbucket or GitHub repo first if there is an existing repo) use the PHP7 CentOS Stack
Once container is loaded update composer: composer self-update

Then install Laravel on the root of workspace:

composer create-project laravel/laravel basicwebsite

Install Nano editor: sudo yum install nano
Edit Document Root on Apache http config file:
```
sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
```
Scroll down a ways to the section where it says Document Root: change that to
```
home/cabox/workspace/basicwebsite/public
```
You can also change working directory to:
```
home/cabox/workspace/basicwebsite/
```
Save changes from the last two steps and exit.
Restart apache: sudo apachectl restart
Change permission of storage directories:chmod -R ugo+rw storage/ and chmod -R ugo+rw bootstrap/cache/
You can save this container as a template stack for other future containers.
Now your Laravel 5.5 app should work. Happy Coding!

Optional: Installing Node/NPM

Furthermore, it may be desirable to install node to compile your laravel assets. Here’s the steps I took to do just that.

Follow this NVM Guide to install Node

use this curl command:

 curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.8/install.sh | bash

install node: nvm install node
cd in the laravel project directory and run npm install . This will install all the required javascript dependencies.
Then you can run npm run watch which will start a live server that will be constantly monitoring for any changes to the project sass and js files and update your site accordingly