Code Challenge.

I decided to go ahead and use Laravel because it's what I'm most comfortable with. I also added a Vue.js component for the actual contact form simply because I kind of like Vue.

To get the repo setup, just download or fork the repo, and cd into the project folder. You'll then need to setup an .env file like mine here and change any variables that adhere to your local dev environment. I realize it's best not to have the .env file public, but there's nothing here worth stealing.

Once your .env file is set, you can run a few commands:

composer install
php artisan make:database
composer set-database
npm install
npm run production

Those should get the project ready to go. php artisan make:database is a custom command that should create a new MySQL database using the database name in your .env file. composer set-database is a custom composer command that runs a few commands in a row:

composer dump
php artisan migrate:fresh
php artisan migrate

I personally use valet for local development right now, but you can use whatever you'd like as long as you make sure the .env file is setup correctly (but you probably already knew that).

For testing, use phpunit or if you're like me you'll have to run vendor/bin/phpunit to run the tests.

• You will notice I swapped the order of the 2 processes, emailing [email protected] and saving a copy to the database, because I wanted to be able to send the model to the email to make it a bit easier.
• Instead of phpunit I use vendor/bin/phpunit to use the project's vendor's phpunit.
• I also have been using MailHog to handle sending emails locally in case there are some issues with local configurations, but there shouldn't be.

I've really enjoyed doing this code challenge!