Step By Step To Setup A Laravel Project

Before creating your first Laravel project, you should ensure that your local machine has PHP and Composer installed. If you are developing on macOS, PHP and Composer can be installed via Homebrew. In addition, we recommend installing Node and NPM.

After you have installed PHP and Composer, you may create a new Laravel project via the Composer create-project command:

composer create-project laravel/laravel example-app

Or, you may create new Laravel projects by globally installing the Laravel installer via Composer:

composer global require laravel/installer

composer global config bin-dir --absolute # It will return the path to the directory

export PATH="$PATH:/path/to/composer/bin" # Replace /path/to/composer/bin with the path obtained in the previous step

source ~/.zshrc # or source ~/.bashrc

After installing the Laravel installer, you may create a new Laravel project using the laravel new command:

laravel new example-app

After the project has been created, start Laravel’s local development server using the Laravel’s Artisan CLI serve command:

cd example-app 

php artisan serve

Once you have started the Artisan development server, your application will be accessible in your web browser at http://localhost:8000. Next, you’re ready to start taking your next steps into the Laravel ecosystem. Of course, you may also want to configure a database.