Creating First Laravel Project

• In this topic, we are going to create the first laravel project. To create the Laravel project , we will be using Git and Composer.
• Following are the steps required to create a first laravel project:

• Open the Git Bash window.

• Enter the ls command to know the current location.

• Currently, we are in the root directory.
• Now we create a Laravel project in XAMMP folder. First we need to move to the xampp folder where we create a new laravel project.

• In the above screen, cd c: command is used to move to the c drive and then we use the command cd xampp/htdocs/ to move to the xampp folder.
• First, we use the ls command to view the list of projects.

• The above screen shows that list is empty, i.e., no projects are available in the xampp folder. Now, we first clear the screen, and create a new laravel project.
• Create a new laravel project.

• In the above screen, we use the command
  composer create-project laravel/laravel firstproject.
• where, laravel/laravel: It is a vendor package. firstproject: It is a project name.

Note: If we do not mention the version, then composer creates automatically new laravel project with the latest version.

• We can also use below commands to create a new laravel project:

composer create-project ?prefer-dist laravel/laravel project_name 5.2.29
composer create-project laravel/laravel project_name 5.2.31 ?prefer-dist

• The below screen shows that installation of laravel is started.



• Once the installation of laravel completed, an application key is created.

• After successful installation, move to the xampp/htdocs folder where we find the firstproject.

• Go to the firstproject folder and then click on the vendor folder where you will find all the dependencies.