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• Simple, fast routing engine.
• Powerful dependency injection container.
• Multiple back-ends for session and cache storage.
• Expressive, intuitive database ORM.
• Database agnostic schema migrations.
• Robust background job processing.
• Real-time event broadcasting.

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This project is configured to work with Postgres by default. For Neon (https://neon.tech) or any managed Postgres provider you should:

1. Create a Postgres database in your Neon dashboard and copy the connection string (DATABASE_URL). It looks like:

   postgres://:@:/?sslmode=require

2. Add that value to your environment (for local development use your .env file):

   DATABASE_URL="postgres://user:password@...:5432/database?sslmode=require"

   or set individual vars (DB_CONNECTION=pgsql, DB_HOST, DB_PORT, DB_DATABASE, DB_USERNAME, DB_PASSWORD) — but DATABASE_URL is recommended.

3. Run migrations and seeders using the Neon connection:

   php artisan migrate --seed

Notes:

• Ensure DB_SSLMODE (default require) matches the provider's requirement. Neon requires SSL connections.
• Do not commit real credentials to the repo. Use environment variables or secret management in CI.

If you can't afford multiple databases (for example, on a hosted Postgres plan), you can isolate tables for different apps by using an application-level table prefix. Set the APP_DB_PREFIX environment variable (for example app1_) and the application will automatically prepend that prefix to all table names and to the migrations table. Example in your .env file:

APP_DB_PREFIX=app1_

Every table created by migrations will be named like app1_users, app1_transactions, etc. Leave it empty for no prefix.