Hands-On Full Stack Web Development with Angular 6 and Laravel 5

Setting up the database inside a Docker container

It's now time to configure our database. If you use Homestead, you probably have your database connection configured and working well. To check, open your Terminal and type the following command:

php artisan tinker
DB::connection()->getPdo();

If everything goes well, you will see the following message:

Database connection message

For this example, however, we are using Docker, and we need to do some configuration to accomplish this task:

1. Inside of the root project, open the .env file and look at line 8 (the database connection), which looks as follows:

 DB_CONNECTION=mysql DB_HOST=127.0.0.1 ...