Quickly create a Backpack Demo, serve it with Laravel Valet, open it with Sublime Text and Brave Browser on Mac OS X

.zshrc

# alias to the subl command
# for it to work, you need to create a symlink to the subl command somewhere in the PATH
# ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" /usr/local/bin/subl
alias sublime='subl'

# function to open the current directory in the browser, served by Laravel Valet
safari() {
	open 'http://'$(basename $(pwd))'.test/';
}

# function to open the current directory in the Brave Browser, served by Laravel Valet
brave() {
	open -a /Applications/Brave\ Browser.app 'http://'$(basename $(pwd))'.test/';
}

# function to start working on a Laravel Valet project; opens it in Brave, in Sublime and runs a git status
work() {
	brave
	subl .
	git status
}

# function to install a new backpack demo, with a give name
newdemo() {
	mysql -u root -e "CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS \`$*\` CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;"

	git clone https://github.com/Laravel-Backpack/demo.git ~/Sites/$*
	cd ~/Sites/$*
	composer install
	
	cp ~/backpack-demo.example.env ~/Sites/$* #copy .env example file to current directory
	mv ~/Sites/$*/backpack-demo.example.env ~/Sites/$*/.env #correct name for .env file
	sed -i '' 's/backpack-demo/'$*'/g' ~/Sites/$*/.env #change DB_DATABASE and APP_URL in .env file

	php artisan key:generate
	php artisan migrate
	php artisan db:seed --class="Backpack\Settings\database\seeds\SettingsTableSeeder"
	php artisan db:seed
	php artisan backpack:base:user --name='Cristian Tabacitu' --email="[email protected]" --password="mydefaultpassword"

	#get all backpack packages again, with version control
	rm -rf vendor/backpack
	composer install --prefer-source
	
	#open text editor and see status
	work
} 

# undo the changes in a repo to the last git commit
# (deletes new files, reverts changes to files)
nah() {
	git clean -f -d
	git reset --hard HEAD
}

# function to delete a laravel project, with a given folder name
# assumes folder name and database name are the same
dump() {
	if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
		echo 'Please specify the name of the project you want to dump.'
	else
	    echo 'Dumping folder Sites/'$*
		rm -rf ~/Sites/$*
	    echo 'Dumping MySQL database '$*
		mysql -u root -e "DROP DATABASE \`$*\`;"
	fi
}