Using .env for your local build
This was one of the best changes to Laravel from version 4 and 5 in my opinion. When I was doing Ruby on Rails work, it also had this feature, and this is the key to help create an application that falls in the Twelve Factor App workflow. You will learn how to use this file for setting keys to some recipes later on in the book. In this example, we will start using it to set up our database.
For the rest of this book, I will use PHPStorm for my editor, which helped me a ton to explore Laravel and PHP code when I first started. Make sure your editor has plugins to easily click and explore classes.
Getting ready
When you installed Laravel, it copied the .env file into place. So, just open your editor of choice and open ...
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