Laravel guidelines

Laravel installation

Windows

• Install composer
• Install Laravel with composer command

  $ composer create-project –prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog

(create-project is the name of the project)

Useful commands

(Generating optimized class loader)

php artisan optimize

php artisan –version

composer require laravel/ui

composer clear cache

composer selfupdate

composer dumpautoload

composer install (vendor folder)

composer update –with-dependencies

composer update –with-dependencies “^6.18”

composer update laravel/laravel -v

composer require lararvel/framework

Manually raise the version in composer.json

As a compare use the desired laravel version’s composer.json file as a sample

composer update

Update Laravel (update, not upgrade)

composer update