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Laravel app walkthrough

Laravel app walkthrough

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Laravel app walkthrough

- [Instructor] Now that we've installed our Laravel application, let's take a look at how Laravel organizes its code. I'm going to go into my text editor here and take a look at the directory structure and the files that exist here. So there are a few keys areas that we can look. The app directory is going to contain the core code of my application. We're going to look at this more in a second. The bootstrap folder contains a few files that'll essentially boostrap the application and handle the auto-loading. The config folder is going to have all of your application's configuration files. The database folder is going to contain your database migration and your seeds. Seeding is essentially just populating your database with dummy data. This is a great way to get started when you're working on an app in the early stages. The public directory essentially is going to be what gets output to the web. So, in here we're going to have our JavaScript files, our index file, our cascade style…

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