How To Develop A React Single Page Application (SPA) In Laravel 8

Good day, welcome to this blog. Today I will be showing you how to develop a react single page application(SPA) in Laravel 8. Before we proceed lets have a little bit of discussion.

Single Page Application (SPA) is web application or website that utilized only a single page and dynamically change its content. The page does not reload unlike Multiple Page Application (MPA) that reload pages to display new information.

Laravel is a free, open-source PHP Web Framework and intended for the development of web applications following the MVC (Model-View-Controller) architectural pattern. It is designed to make developing web apps faster and easier by using the built-in features.

React or also called React.js or Reactjs is a free and open-source JavaScript library used for building user interfaces(UI). It is one of the most popular JavaScript library for building front-end. React is created by Facebook and maintained by Facebook.

First, select a folder that you want the Laravel to be installed then execute this command on Terminal or CMD to install Laravel 8:

Install via composer:

Install via Laravel Install:

Let’s install the laravel/ui package:

Then we can now install the react front-end scaffolding:

We will then install react-router-dom, this will be used for the routing system of our app.

After installing the necessary packages, we will then create a view file that will be used for our react application. Create a file in /resources/views/app.blade.php and add these codes:

/resources/views/app.blade.php

After create the view file, we will register a route in /routes/web.php. Remove the default route on the file and register this route.

/routes/web.php