How to install Laravel and create Laravel Project

This article will guide you on How to install Laravel and create Laravel Project, further how you can also achieve auth routes scaffolding with laravel ui package

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The Following are the steps required to install Laravel

1. Install composer –

Steps to install composer

php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
php -r "if (hash_file('sha384', 'composer-setup.php') === '756890a4488ce9024fc62c56153228907f1545c228516cbf63f885e036d37e9a59d27d63f46af1d4d07ee0f76181c7d3') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"
php composer-setup.php
php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"

Once you have the composer installed, another important thing you would want to do is make the composer globally accessible. More on it you can find on composer official documentation – here. And here is the command –

mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

For Window check this link here

2. Install Laravel Installer as a global Composer dependency –

composer global require laravel/installer

With this you will have Laravel installed on your machine

The following command will create a Laravel Project –

laravel new laravellearning

How to install Laravel and create Laravel Project

laravellearning project folder will be created

To check the Laravel Installer version

laravel --version

To check the Laravel framework version

php artisan --version

Create Virtual Host

vhost conf file located in mac – /usr/local/etc/httpd/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

##################################
# LaravelLearning.com #
##################################

<VirtualHost 0.0.0.0:80>
    DocumentRoot "<path-to-your-laravel-project>/laravellearning/public"
    ServerName laravellearning.test
    <Directory <path-to-your-laravel-project>/laravellearning/public>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 0.0.0.0:80> can be replaced with <VirtualHost *:80>

Create Host entry in the host file

host file located in mac – /private/etc/hosts

laravellearning.test

Now, it is always better to have any one HTML / CSS library in the project

For that Laravel has us covered with laravel/ui package. It provides a quick way to scaffold all of the routes and views you need for authentication using a few simple commands

composer require laravel/ui

Once the laravel/ui package has been installed, you may install the frontend scaffolding using the ui Artisan command:

// Generate basic scaffolding...
php artisan ui bootstrap
php artisan ui vue
php artisan ui react

// Generate login / registration scaffolding...
php artisan ui bootstrap --auth
php artisan ui vue --auth
php artisan ui react --auth

I usually go with bootstrap auth scaffolding to start off with…