Minimal project to generate a simple website.
Dotkernel light interface has been tested with npm v10.0.4 and Node.js v20.11.0.
Installation instructions:
If you have never used composer before make sure you read the
Composer Basic Usage
section in Composer's documentation
Example:
- absolute path
/var/www/dk
- or relative path
dk
(equivalent with./dk
)
After you choose the path for Dotkernel light (dk
will be used for the remainder of this example), let's move onto installation.
This method ensures that the default branch is installed, even if it is not released. Run the following command:
git clone https://github.com/dotkernel/light.git .
The dependencies have to be installed separately, by running this command:
composer install
The setup script prompts for some configuration settings, for example the lines below:
Please select which config file you wish to inject 'Laminas\HttpHandlerRunner\ConfigProvider' into:
[0] Do not inject
[1] config/config.php
Make your selection (default is 1):
Simply select [0] Do not inject
, because Dotkernel includes its own configProvider which already contains the prompted configurations.
If you choose [1] config/config.php
Laminas's ConfigProvider
will be injected.
The next question is:
Remember this option for other packages of the same type? (Y/n)
You should enter y
and press Enter
.
- duplicate
config/autoload/local.php.dist
asconfig/autoload/local.php
Run this command to enable dev mode by turning debug flag to true
and turning configuration caching to off
. It will also make sure that any existing config cache is cleared.
composer development-enable
- If not already done, remove the
.dist
extension fromconfig/autoload/development.local.php.dist
.
To install dependencies into the node_modules
directory run this command.
npm install
- If
npm install
fails, this could be caused by user permissions of npm. Recommendation is to install npm throughNode Version Manager
.
The watch command compiles the components then watches the files and recompiles when one of them changes.
npm run watch
After all updates are done, this command compiles the assets locally, minifies them and makes them ready for production.
npm run prod
We recommend running your applications in WSL:
- make sure you have WSL installed on your system
- currently we provide a distro implementations for AlmaLinux9
- install the application in a virtualhost as recommended by the chosen distro
- set
$baseUrl
in config/autoload/local.php to the address of the virtualhost - run the application by opening the virtualhost address in your browser
You should see the Dotkernel light
welcome page.
NOTE:
- If you are getting exceptions or errors regarding some missing services, try running the following command:
sudo php bin/clear-config-cache.php
If
config-cache.php
is present that config will be loaded regardless of theConfigAggregator::ENABLE_CACHE
inconfig/autoload/mezzio.global.php