CakePHP-react example

Example how to use a CakePHP 3.x application as backend together with a React frontend as found on https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/tutorial.html

Installation

Make sure you have Composer installed and configured.

1. Check out this source code to cakephp-react (lowercase!)

   cd your-webroot-directory
   git clone https://github.com/Rubyan/CakePHP-react.git cakephp-react
   

2. Go to the backend directory

   cd cakephp-react
   cd backend
   

3. Run composer install.

4. Create a database with the following settings:

    'database' => 'my_app',
    'username' => 'my_app',
    'password' => 'secret',
   

5. Read and edit config/app.php and setup the 'Datasources' and any other configuration relevant for your application.

6. run the migration. This will create the database table.

      bin/cake migrations migrate
   

Backend

Test the backend with the CakePHP interface: http://localhost/cakephp-react/backend/comments

Frontend

Test the frontend with the React interface http://localhost/cakephp-react/react/public