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Laravel 8 with React(JS)

#php #laravel #react

First and foremost, we must establish a Laravel 8 application.

composer create-project laravel/laravel react-app
cd react-app
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Back-End

Follow the instructions here to set up the back-end for Inertia.js.

composer require inertiajs/inertia-laravel
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Create a Root template with the following contents in resources/views/app.blade.php

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0" />
    <link href="{{ mix('/css/app.css') }}" rel="stylesheet" />
    <script src="{{ mix('/js/app.js') }}" defer></script>
  </head>
  <body>
    @inertia
  </body>
</html>
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Create a route in routes/web.php

use Inertia\Inertia;

Route::get('home', function(){
  return Inertia::render('home');
});
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Note: We haven't constructed the Home component yet, which is specified in the render method.

Front-End

Let's get our front-end up and running by following the instructions provided.

We'll begin with a collection of installations:

npm i react-dom

npm install @inertiajs/inertia @inertiajs/inertia-react

npm i jsconfig.json
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Initialize our Inertia app like below inside resources/js/app.js:


import { InertiaApp } from '@inertiajs/inertia-react'
import React from 'react'
import { render } from 'react-dom'

const app = document.getElementById('app')

render(
  <InertiaApp
    initialPage={JSON.parse(app.dataset.page)}
    resolveComponent={name => import(`./pages/${name}`).then(module => module.default)}
  />,
  app
)
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Create our Home component at resources/js/pages/home.js


import React from "react";

const Home = () => {
    let parameter1 = "React";
    let parameter2 = "laravel 8";

    return (
        <h1>
            Hello {parameter1} + {parameter2}
        </h1>
    );
};

export default Home;
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Lets install babel/preset-react as dev dependency.

npm install --save-dev @babel/preset-react
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Create a .babelrc file at root of our project with following contents:

{
  "presets": ["@babel/preset-react"]
}
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Test Our Project

npm run dev

php artisan serve
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Lathindu Pramduitha •

Thank you for sharing.

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nuwan071 • • Edited

Great blog! Thank you very much.

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Emokor Steven •

It gives me 404.

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J-Sandaruwan •

"php artisan optimize" Run that on your project terminal.

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Emokor Steven • • Edited

I just did. Cleared cache successfully. I run php artisan serve again but still gives me the same 404. And when i go localhost:8000/home it gave me the error "Mix Manifest does not exist." So I had to include mix.js('resources/js/app.js', 'public/js').react() in my webpack.mix.js file. I also went ahead and included webpack.config.js (though I don' know if this was necessary) and then run npm run dev. It worked finally when i used localhost:8000. I think you need to update the post and include that step.

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J-Sandaruwan •

Ruan again 'npm run dev' on your project terminal.

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