Alight-Project

Alight-Project is a project template with Alight framework, which helps users to quickly build the directory structure of the project and create an admin panel by Alight-Admin, it is very suitable for beginners.

Alight Family

Project	Description
Alight	Basic framework built-in routing, database, caching, etc.
Alight-Admin	A full admin panel extension based on Alight. No front-end coding required.
Alight-Project	A template for beginner to easily create web applications by Alight/Alight-Admin.

Requirements

PHP 7.4+

Usage

$ composer create-project juneszh/alight-project {PROJECT_DIRECTORY}

Directory Structure

• app/ Contains the core code of your application.
  • controller/ Contains controllers that handle requests (MVC pattern).
  • job/ Contains jobs run by the time-based scheduler.
  • model/ Contains models of database (MVC pattern).
  • service/ Contains the business logics.
  • view/ Contains views with page templates (MVC pattern).
  • bootstrap.php The web bootstraps.
  • scheduler.php Job scheduler run by CRON.
• config/ Contains all of application's configuration files.
  • admin/ Contains the admin's menu and console configuration.
  • route/ Contains the route's configuration.
  • app.php Application's configuration.
  • job.php Job scheduler's configuration.
• public/ Contains the index.php file and assets such as images, JavaScript, and CSS.
  • favicon.ico Icon for the web application.
  • index.php Entry point for all requests entering the web application.
• storage/ Contains logs, route caches, file caches, and other files generated by the framework.
• vendor/ Contains composer dependencies.

Shortcut Namespaces

The classes in the application are always called from the business code, so we define some shortcut namespaces to improve coding efficiency.

Namespace	Directory
ctr	app/controller
job	app/job
mod	app/model
svc	app/service

For example:

// The route handler points to function 'index' in app/Controllers/Pages.php
Alight\Route::get('/', [\ctr\Pages::class, 'index']);

Composer Scripts

The admin panel is not built by default when creating project, you need to do it with follow scripts: (Please make sure the database has been configured)

$ cd {PROJECT_DIRECTORY}
$ composer require juneszh/alight-admin
$ composer run admin-install
$ composer run admin-download

List of scripts:

Name	Description
admin-install	Initialize the runtime environment required by the Alight-Admin.
admin-build	Build the admin panel front-end resources by npm packages. (Node.js required)
admin-download	Download the admin panel front-end resources from Alight-Admin releases.

License

• MIT license