Beginning Laravel: Build Websites with Laravel 5.8

© Sanjib Sinha 2019

S. SinhaBeginning Laravel https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4991-8_2

2. Setting Up Your Environment

Sanjib Sinha¹ 

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Howrah, West Bengal, India

 

This chapter will help you install Composer, both locally and globally, and introduce you to Valet, Homestead, VirtualBox, Vagrant, and Forge. You will also learn how to create a new project in Laravel 5.8 using your Homestead development environment.

Composer

Composer is a dependency management tool in PHP. For any PHP project, you need to use a library of code. Composer easily manages this task on your behalf, helping you to declare those libraries and packages. You can also install or update any code in your library through Composer. Please visit https://getcomposer.org for more details. ...