Setting up CIEF Exchange onto your local machine

Prerequisite:

📌:Pre-requisites

Clone GitLab into Visual Studio Code
Rename .env.example to .env. If you're sentimental just make another copy and rename the copy.
Open Terminal and run after installing Composer
```
composer install --ignore-platform-reqs
```

Next is setting up your database. Naviagate to .env and name CIEF Portal Database. Example:

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=exchange_db <------ Here
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=

Open Xampp, navigate to phpmyadmin then Create a new Database in phpmyadmin with the same name as the name you named it
Migrate the database to inherit all the tables from the cloned repository by using these command in the terminal:
```
php artisan migrate
```
```
php artisan migrate:fresh --seed
```
Once done you can check phpmyadmin if the database is properly migrated.
Next is setting up the frontend. Assuming you already have nodejs ver14(Specifically) installed, run this in the terminal
```
npm install
```
Next we install gulp with this command
```
npm install -g gulp
```
Now we build gulp with this command
```
gulp build
```
You are all set to view this project/repository locally. To run them run these command in 2 seperate terminals
```
php artisan serve
```
```
npm run watch OR npm run dev
```