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Installation

For managing dependencies, Laravel uses composer. Make sure you have a Composer installed on your system before you install Laravel.

Step 1: Visit the following URL and download composer to install it on your system.

https://getcomposer.org/download/

Step 2: After the Composer is installed, check the installation by typing the Composer command in the command prompt as shown in the following screenshot.

Step 3: Create a new directory anywhere in your system for your new Laravel project. After that, move to path where you have created the new directory and type the following command there to install Laravel.

composer create-project laravel/laravel –prefer-dist

Step 4: The above command will install Laravel in the current directory. Start the Laravel service by executing the following command.

php artisan serve

Step 5: After executing the above command, you will see a screen as shown below:

Step 6: Copy the URL underlined in gray in the above screenshot and open that URL in the browser. If you see the following screen, it implies Laravel has been installed successfully.

Laravel - Introduction

Introduction

Laravel is an MVC framework with bundles, migrations, and Artisan CLI. Laravel offers a robust set of tools and an application architecture that incorporates many of the best features of frameworks like CodeIgniter, Yii, ASP.NET MVC, Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, and others.

Laravel is an Open Source framework. It has a very rich set of features which will boost the speed of Web Development. If you familiar with Core PHP and Advanced PHP, Laravel will make your task easier. It will save a lot time if you are planning to develop a website from scratch. Not only that, the website built in Laravel is also secure. It prevents the various attacks that can take place on websites.