Beginning Laravel: A beginner's guide to application development with Laravel 5.3

© Sanjib Sinha 2017

Sanjib Sinha, Beginning Laravel, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2538-7_3

3. File Structure

Sanjib Sinha¹ 

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Let us see what’s inside the installed Laravel folder ‘blog’. It has folders like ‘app’, ‘bootstrap’, ‘config’, ‘database’, ‘public’, ‘resources’, ‘storage’, ‘tests’, ‘vendor’, and a few more files, including a ‘composer.json’ file.

Let us first see how the file structure looks (Figure 3-1).

Figure 3-1. Laravel 5.3.18 file structure

As you see, each folder and its included files have their own roles clearly defined. You should not try to change or tweak any source code.

The ‘app’ folder is extremely important. ...