How do I setup Laravel?

Laravel installation requirements

Before you can install Laravel, you need to make sure that your server meets some requirements. However, to save yourself from the trouble, you can go for Laravel Homestead virtual machine which fulfills all the prerequisites. But if you want to opt otherwise, here are the criteria that your server has to meet: -

• PHP >= 7.2.5

• BCMath PHP Extension

• Ctype PHP Extension

• Fileinfo PHP extension

• JSON PHP Extension

• Mbstring PHP Extension

• OpenSSL PHP Extension

• PDO PHP Extension

• Tokenizer PHP Extension

• XML PHP Extension

How do I set up Laravel?

There are many ways to install Laravel. But to keep it simple, we are going to install it with the composer.

The first step is to download the Laravel installer using composer.

composer global require laravel/installer

Now you have to ensure to place Composer’s system-wide vendor bin directory in your $Path. It exists in different locations based on your OS. Here are the common locations: -

• macOS: $HOME/.composer/vendor/bin

• Windows: %USERPROFILE%\\AppData\\Roaming\\Composer\\vendor\\bin

• GNU / Linux Distributions: $HOME/.config/composer/vendor/bin or $HOME/.composer/vendor/bin

Once the installation is complete, you can use laravel new command to create a new Laravel installation in your specified directory. For example, laravel new blog will create a directory named blog containing a fresh Laravel installation.