Hands-On Full Stack Web Development with Angular 6 and Laravel 5

Setting up PHPDocker and Laravel

Now that we have filled in the previous information and downloaded the file for our machine, let's begin setting up our application so as to delve deeper into the directory structure of a Laravel application.

Execute the following steps:

1. Open bash/Terminal/cmd.
2. Go to Users/yourname on Mac and Linux, or C:/ on Windows.

3. Open your Terminal inside the folder and type the following command:

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel chapter-01

At the end of your Terminal window, you will see the following result:

Writing lock fileGenerating autoload files> Illuminate\Foundation\ComposerScripts::postUpdate> php artisan optimizeGenerating optimized class loaderphp artisan key:generate

4. In the Terminal ...