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bambini's avatar
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Dev Version of Spark on Localhost?

I like the spark project. But I want to develop the website locally and then purchase the license for the particular domain when I am ready. Is this possible? Because I have created an API key without purchasing license and when I try to install spark locally I get 403 Forbidden error when I run spark create new command. Any ideas?

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steve_laracasts's avatar

Sorry, to install Spark you need an API key, which means you need a license.

I don't know any way around this - I looked because I wanted to do the exact same thing a while back.

IMHO I think It's totally worth it - you get so much out of the box! Also, I learned an awful lot by reading the code and deciding to switch to Vue 2 to build my most recent app - basically Spark and the Laacasts Vue 2 tutorials got me from 0->full speed ahead with Vue 2 - it's a small price to pay just to have this experience, never mind actually being able to use the code for your application as well ;)

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