Setting Up Your First Laravel Project

Before writing code, let us prepare the tools. You need PHP 8.3 or newer, Composer, and Node.js.

Creating the project

Run this in the folder where you keep your projects:

composer create-project laravel/laravel shop
cd shop
php artisan serve

Setting up the database

Open the .env file, fill in the database name and user, then run the migrations:

php artisan migrate