YOWL

About YOWL

YOWL is a web application that allows you to comment on any content visible on the Internet and to share it with the YOWL community!

Visit https://yowl.jeffvodo.me to take a look at YOWL.

Tech stack and installation

YOWL is built with Laravel, MySQL and Vue.js. You can get it running with the following steps:

• Clone the repository;
• Install Vue CLI globally;
• Go to the vue folder with cd vue;
• Update environment variables in .env;
• Install dependencies with yarn install;
• To start the frontend in development mode, run yarn serve:dev;
• Go to the laravel folder with cd laravel;
• Install dependencies with composer install;
• Create a .env file following the .env.example model;
• Create your database in MySQL and migrate by running php artisan migrate;
• To start the backend, run php artisan serve --port=${PORT} where ${PORT} should match VUE_APP_API_BASEURL's port in vue/.env.

License

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