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The application also demonstrates how to upload a large Excel file to a database. This feature uses laravel excel package. The package helps us to validate the user input and load the file in a queue. Hence suited to upload a large file into a database.

1. Clone this repository.
2. cd into it.
3. Install Composer Dependencies. composer install
4. Install NPM Dependencies. npm install
5. Copy .env.example file to .env
6. Generate an app encryption key. php artisan key:generate
7. Set up your database credentials then run php artisan migrate to create the tables.
8. Set up queue for file upload: I recommend redis queue driver on .env file.
9. Use the php artisan queue:work to start a queue worker and process new jobs as they are pushed onto the queue.
10. php artisan serve
11. Visit localhost:8000 in your browser.