Star Wars API

This application was built to interact with the Star Wars API providing a simple interface for searching people and movies. The application data is provided via a Laravel API and a Nuxt/Vue front end.

Technologies Used

• Backend
  • http://localhost:8000
  • Laravel
• Frontend
  • http://localhost:3000
  • Nuxt
  • NuxtUI
  • Tailwind

Running the code

After you clone this repository locally, you have 2 options to run the code:

1. Build and run a Docker container pre-configured to execute both the frontend and backend
2. Run the frontend and backend separately inside your own operating system

• You will need the following installed on your system to run locally without Docker
  • PHP 8
  • Composer
  • Node 20
• You can refer to the Laravel or Nuxt installation instructions for more details on requirements.

Running locally with Docker

1. From inside the /api folder run

• composer install
• cp .env.example .env
• php artisan key:generate
• php artisan migrate
  • select yes to create the .sqlite file

2. Then from the project root run

• docker compose build
  • only run this the first time you start the application
• docker compose up

3. Visit http://localhost:3000 in your browser

Running locally without Docker

1. From inside the /api folder run

• composer install
• cp .env.example .env
• php artisan key:generate
• php artisan migrate
  • select yes to create the .sqlite file
• php artisan serve

2. From inside the /web folder run

• yarn install
• yarn dev

3. Visit http://localhost:3000 in your browser