Laravel is a powerful MVC PHP framework, designed for developers who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications. Laravel was created by Taylor Otwell.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. 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.
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 − Copy the URL or http://localhost/laravel/ and open that URL in the browser. If you see the Laravel 5 screen, it implies Laravel has been installed successfully.
