Setting up a Fresh Laravel Project with Composer

# 🚀 Setting up a Fresh Laravel Project with Composer

Laravel is one of the most popular PHP frameworks, and getting started with it is super easy using **Composer**. In just a few steps, you can have a brand-new Laravel project running locally.

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Step 1: Install Composer

Make sure Composer is installed on your system. You can check by running:

composer -V

Step 2: Create a New Laravel Project

Run the following command in your terminal:

composer create-project laravel/laravel myapp

Here:

laravel/laravel → tells Composer to fetch the Laravel framework.

myapp → is your project folder name (you can change it).

This will download Laravel and set up all dependencies automatically.

Step 3: Navigate to Your Project

Move into your new Laravel project folder:

cd myapp

Step 4: Run the Development Server

Laravel comes with a built-in server. Start it with:

php artisan serve

By default, the app will run at:

👉 http://127.0.0.1:8000