Test your Laravel project easily with Phone. 📲

#laravel #database #mobile

Hi guys, this is a small tutorial for test your local developing Laravel Web Application with your Phone easily.

1) Wi-Fi Hotspot Phone: 📶

Open setting on your mobile phone -> activate Wi-Fi Personal Hotspot.
Connect your PC to the Wi-Fi network of your Mobile Hotspot.

2) Check your IP adress by terminal: 👨‍💻

Windows: ipconfig
MacBook: ifconfig

Copy the address situated here:

3) Last step: 🖥

Go to your Laravel application project -> open terminal -> run the following command to turn on the built in server.

sudo php artisan serve --host 192.168.43.181 --port 80

Insert your Password and well done, you have id for test your Laravel project on you mobile phone browser!

4)Enjoy! 🤳

Top comments (2)

thaariq nasution • May 12 '23

Hi, thanks for sharing. This works for me but, when i open it, it doesn't displayed as it should be (it looked like a html page without css), i'm using TailwindCSS for my framework maybe that's why?

ououssama • Aug 27 '23 • Edited

Hi @thaariqnst, i had the same problem i solve it by adding this option to vite.config.js file

  server: {
    host: your-ip-here
  },

then run npm run dev --host