start laravel project inside electron project - php

Question

i created a laravel project inside electron js the issue is that first I have to use php artisan serve commad inside the laravel project then only when I start my electron with npm start the laravel project will work how can i over come this issue
what i want is when i start the electron project with npm start the php artisan serve must also work with it
here is a diretory list of my app

Answer 1

I followed the documentation your provided here : Laravel desktop application using Electron Js
and everything seems to work pretty well, however you need to know:
You don't need to use php artisan serve npm will do all the work for you.
Everything must be in one directory,
start by creating a new directory for example: stack
inside the stack follow step 1,2 from the documentation you provided.
make sure to install php-server :
npm i --save node-php-server
in the step 3 ("Making directories") inside stack create two directories as follow:
stack/php : here copy your php folder that contains the bin/php.exe ....etc
stack/www : here create your laravel project (Note: make it here, not a sub directory, so it's like stack/www/public , stack/www/artisan ....etc).
if you want to edit the directories as you want, pay attention to the following lines in step 4 from the link above:
as a note:
phpServer.createServer({
port: port,
hostname: host,
base: `${__dirname}/www/public`,
keepalive: false,
open: false,
bin: `${__dirname}/php/php.exe`,
router: __dirname + '/www/server.php'
});
base: is the laravel public folder
bin : is the bin file to PHP CLI
router: is the server.php file from laravel project