How to install Crater on Windows 10

Crater is an open-source invoicing app built on top of Laravel framework. It's designed to be easy to use, fast and customizable for small businesses. In this tutorial, we'll walk you through the steps to install Crater on Windows 10.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, make sure you have the following installed on your system:

• Composer
• Node.js
• Git

Installation Steps

1. Open your command prompt by pressing Win + R and then typing cmd and hitting enter.
2. Create a new directory where you want to install Crater.

mkdir crater

3. Change to the newly created directory:

cd crater

4. Clone the Crater repository from Github:

git clone https://github.com/crater-invoice/crater .

5. Install Laravel dependencies using composer:

composer install

6. Generate the application key:

php artisan key:generate

7. Edit the .env file to add your database credentials. You can rename the .env.example file to .env and then edit it.

DB_DATABASE=your_database_name
DB_USERNAME=your_database_username
DB_PASSWORD=your_database_password

8. Run the migration commands to set up the database tables:

php artisan migrate

9. Seed the database with initial data:

php artisan db:seed

10. Install Javascript dependencies using npm:

npm install

11. Build the assets:

npm run dev

Launching Crater

To launch Crater, you can use the following command:

php artisan serve

This will start the development server at http://localhost:8000/.

Conclusion

That's it! You have successfully installed Crater on your Windows 10 machine. Now you can start using it to manage your invoices and billing.

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