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At first glance, the directory and folder structure might seem a bit overwhelming, but it’s not as complicated as it looks. The separation of data(models), views, and controllers will become clear once you start displaying views using routes and controllers. To get started, let’s take a closer look at the files and folders that matter most when building a Laravel application.
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At first glance, the directory and folder
structure might seem a bit overwhelming,
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but it's not as complicated as it looks.
0:05
The separation of models, views,
and controllers will become clear
0:08
once you start displaying views
using routes and controllers.
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To get started,
let's take a closer look at the files and
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folders that matter most when
building a Laravel application.
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Laravel is an MVC framework consisting
of models, views, and controllers,
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which you can find nestled inside
of the Laravel folder structure.
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Models are located in the app directory
while the controllers are in
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the http/controllers directory.
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The views reside in
the resources/views directory.
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Let's take a deeper look at each one of
these locations starting with the app
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directory.
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Inside of the app folder,
we have a few more directories to explore,
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Console, Exceptions, HTTP, and Providers.
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Laravel comes preloaded
with the user model,
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and we'll take a closer look
at these later in the course.
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But for now, open the HTTP folder to
take a closer look at our controllers.
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Here's where our controllers live.
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As you can see, Laravel comes preloaded
with authentication controllers.
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We won't be using these controllers for
this course, but feel free to take a look.
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Later in this course, we'll create
our very own controllers, but first,
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let's dive into the database directory.
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This is the database directory, where
you'll find migrations, factories and
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seeders.
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Migrations are mostly blueprints for
creating and
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modifying the structure of our database.
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Seeders allow us to insert an initial
data set into our database quickly.
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Next, navigate to the resources folder
to find the markup for the welcome page.
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In the js folder,
you'll find the JavaScript files.
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See, it's not that complicated.
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We also have a default sass folder,
which contains all of our sass files.
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Sass is a CSS preprocessor that compiles
into CSS when you run the sass executable.
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Next, let's take a look
at the views folder.
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This folder contains all of our blade
components that we'll be using to build
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the UI, or user interface.
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The welcome.blade.php file is the default
welcome page we displayed in the browser,
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which uses the blade templating
engine to add dynamic qualities to
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the user interface.
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This folder contains our routes, which are
divided into two categories, API and web.
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For this course, we're only gonna
cover web routes, but rest assured,
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we'll cover how to build a Laravel API
in another Treehouse course.
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In addition to the directories
we've covered,
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we also have three essential files
located in the root directory, .env,
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composer.json, and package.json.
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The composer.json and package.json files
keep track of the various packages and
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dependencies used within our application.
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This course, however,
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only uses packages already included
with the initial installation.
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Last but not least, we have the .env file,
where we previously defined our database
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credentials, which also handles other
features such as our application URL,
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and the environment state, such as
development, staging, and production.
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Now that we have a better understanding of
Laravel, you should feel more confident
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about the overall structure and components
nestled inside of any Laravel application.
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Reflect on the MVC Pattern and
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where those components are located
inside of the file structure.
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Take a few minutes to explore the
application structure on your own since
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you'll be working with
these directories often.
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Getting comfortable navigating through
your Laravel app is an easy and
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fun way to understand the underlying
file and folder structures.
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In the next section, we'll take a look
at how we can use web routes to help
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users navigate to different pages.
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See you in the next section.
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