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Part 12 of this project

Deploy

Prepare Quaycart Market for production hosting.

Goal

This snapshot advances Quaycart Market by teaching you to prepare Quaycart Market for production hosting.

Every numbered folder is a complete app. Run this stage independently, then compare it with the previous folder.

Prerequisites

Use PHP 8.2+, Composer, Node.js 20+, npm, and Docker for MySQL stages.

Port 8004 must be free. Copy .env.example before database stages.

  • PHP and Composer
  • Node.js and npm
  • Docker from part 4 onward

Concepts

Production needs HTTPS cookies, a strong APP_KEY, env-only database URLs, built assets, and forced migrations.

Livewire keeps interactive UI on the server with components; Tailwind styles the storefront; Eloquent owns persistence and authorization checks.

Walkthrough

Review deploy docs for Railway or similar; never commit .env.

Read the example, then open the matching snapshot. The repository includes validation, CSRF, and the surrounding structure.

php artisan migrate --force
php artisan config:cache
php artisan serve --host=0.0.0.0 --port=${PORT:-8004}

Run and verify

Enter 12-Deploy, install PHP and Node dependencies, copy .env.example, migrate, seed, build assets, and serve on port 8004.

Open http://127.0.0.1:8004. From data lessons onward, Ada and Grace use password123.

docker compose up -d
git clone https://github.com/michaeldunga1/fcc-laravel-ecommerce.git
cd fcc-laravel-ecommerce/12-Deploy
composer install
npm install
cp .env.example .env
php artisan key:generate
php artisan migrate --seed
php artisan storage:link
npm run build
php artisan serve --host=0.0.0.0 --port=8004

Troubleshooting

If sessions vanish after deploy, check HTTPS cookie and SESSION_DOMAIN settings.

For database failures, confirm Docker and the quaycart_NN name. Never commit .env, vendor, or node_modules.

  • Read the first exception first
  • Rebuild assets after Tailwind class changes
  • Never commit secrets

Try this

List every secret that must live only in the host environment.

Test a happy path and one invalid or unauthorized request.

  • Make one small change
  • Test it in the browser
  • Compare with the next snapshot only after it works

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