This project comes from Laravel Daily blog post, How to Test Junior Laravel Developer Skills: Sample Project, a challenge (sample project) for junior laravel developer.

This project built with Laravel 5.5.

• [x] Basic Laravel Auth: ability to log in as administrator
• [x] Use database seeds to create first user with email admin@admin.com and password “password”
• [x] CRUD functionality (Create / Read / Update / Delete) for two menu items: Companies and Employees.
• [x] Companies DB table consists of these fields: Name (required), email, logo (minimum 100×100), website
• [x] Employees DB table consists of these fields: First name (required), last name (required), Company (foreign key to Companies), email, phone
• [x] Use database migrations to create those schemas above
• [x] Store companies logos in storage/app/public folder and make them accessible from public
• [x] Use basic Laravel resource controllers with default methods – index, create, store etc.
• [x] Use Laravel’s validation function, using Request classes
• [x] Use Laravel’s pagination for showing Companies/Employees list, 10 entries per page
• [x] Use Laravel make:auth as default Bootstrap-based design theme, but remove ability to register

• [ ] Use Datatables.net library to show table – with our without server-side rendering
• [ ] Use more complicated front-end theme like AdminLTE
• [ ] Email notification: send email whenever new company is entered (use Mailgun or Mailtrap)
• [x] Make the project multi-language (using resources/lang folder)
• [x] Basic testing with phpunit (I know some would argue it should be the basics, but I disagree)

1. Clone the repo : git clone https://github.com/nafiesl/Mini-CRM.git
2. $ cd Mini-CRM
3. $ composer install
4. $ cp .env.example .env
5. $ php artisan key:generate
6. Create database on MySQL or SQLite
7. Set database credentials on .env file
8. $ php artisan migrate --seed
9. $ php artisan storage:link
10. $ php artisan serve
11. Login with :
    • email : admin@admin.com
    • password : password

If you want to some demo records, we can use Laravel Tinker and Model Factories.

$ php artisan tinker
>>> factory(App\Company::class, 15)->create(['creator_id' => 1])->each(function ($u) { $u->employees()->saveMany(factory(App\Employee::class, rand(5, 12))->make(['company_id' => $u->id])); });

Then we will get some filled records like screenshots below (except the company logo).

This software is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.