simple-laravel

Get a Laravel server up and running quickly for testing and small-scale deployments with this lightweight Docker image.

This image is designed to provide a hassle-free way to spin up a Laravel server for development, testing, and small-scale production environments. It's perfect for rapid prototyping, proof-of-concepts, and low-traffic web applications.

Based on the official PHP image, ensuring a stable and secure foundation Pre-configured with Laravel and its dependencies, saving you time and effort Optimized for small-scale deployments, keeping resource usage to a minimum Easy to use and extend, with a simple and intuitive configuration

tags

This image follows a similar tagging schema as the official PHP image.
{simple-laravel version}-php-{php version} (e.g. vistanarvas/simple-laravel:2.0.2-php-8.3)

setting laravel up in a container

compose

version: '3'
services:
    app:
        image: vistanarvas/simple-laravel
        ports:
            - '8080:8080'
            - '5173:5173'
        environment:
            DB_CONNECTION: mysql
            DB_HOST: mysql
            DB_PORT: 3306
            DB_DATABASE: laravel
            DB_USERNAME: laravel
            DB_PASSWORD: password

            BOOT_COMPOSER_INSTALL: true # runs `composer install` on boot
            BOOT_NPM_INSTALL: true      # runs `npm install` on boot
            BOOT_NPM_DEV: true          # starts `npm dev`

            # Extra packages and php extensions to install on first boot
            # EXTRA_APK_PACKAGES:   # example: libpng-dev icu-dev
            # EXTRA_PHP_EXTENSIONS: # example: exif intl bcmath gd pdo_mysql
        volumes:
            - '[Path to your laravel project]:/var/www/html'
        depends_on:
            - mysql

    mysql:
        image: 'mysql/mysql-server:8.0'
        environment:
            MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: root_password
            MYSQL_ROOT_HOST: '%'
            MYSQL_DATABASE: laravel
            MYSQL_USER: laravel
            MYSQL_PASSWORD: password
            MYSQL_ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD: 1
        volumes:
            - 'mysql:/var/lib/mysql'

volumes:
    mysql:
        driver: local

suggested changes to laravel

vite

/vite.config.js

 import laravel from 'laravel-vite-plugin';
 
 export default defineConfig({
+    server: {
+        hmr: {
+            host: '[Server Domain or IP]'
+        },
+    },
     plugins: [
         laravel({
             input: [

---

/package.json

     "private": true,
     "type": "module",
     "scripts": {
-        "dev": "vite",
+        "dev": "vite --host 0.0.0.0",
         "build": "vite build"
     },
     "devDependencies": {