Scally Wags

A public forum built by Adam Day

This project was built with Laravel and VueJS. It started as only one feature of a larger project RballNL, but was later extracted into its own project.

Setup Instructions

• clone the repository
• run cp .env.example .env and edit your environmental variables
• run composer install
• run npm install
• run php artisan key:generate
• You will also need to set up a Google Recaptcha service. Enter your keys in the .env file.
• This application uses a Redis server. To install Redis, run sudo apt install redis-server
• This application also uses Pusher for the chat rooms. To opt into using Pusher, add your keys to the .env file and change the BROADCAST_DRIVER value
• Create a table in your database for the forum
• Run your migrations and seeders (if necessary)
• Compile your assets with npm run dev, npm run prod, or npm run watch, depending on your environment

here is a live demo of the site

Anyone who would like to contribute is welcome to do so.