Creating laravel project

Step 1: Download the following tools

1. XAMPP Server.

   • To download XAMPP click https://sourceforge.net/projects/xampp/

   • Then install the XAMPP.
     

2. Composer.

   • To Download composer https://getcomposer.org/download/

   • Then , install the composer.

After downloading the XAMPP and Composer. You are getting ready to install a fresh laravel application.

Step 2: Open the command line interface.

You have to open the CLI(Command line interface) in the desired folder where you want to create the laravel application. In my example, I installed a laravel named folder in the desktop.

Run the following command

composer create-project laravel/laravel example-app

In this command example-app is my project name , you can specify your project name there.

After running the command , you will see command like given below.

Finally, you will see the below command line, this indicates you have successfully created the laravel project.

Step 3 :

• After completing the project creation, you will see the project you created. In my case, I created the project in the name example-app .Therefore , I got the example-app folder. Given below.

• Open the example app using a text editor , I use visual studio code editor that has more features. You will see this folder after opening the example-app using vs code editor.

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