How to install laravel Globally on Ubuntu

Introduction

Laravel uses composer to run and create projects,before proceeding with this install,please ensure you have composer install globally,is not you must first install from their official page?here.

Composer is a tool for dependency management in PHP. It allows you to declare the libraries your project depends on and it will manage (install/update) them for you.

Open your terminal by using?Ctrl+Alt+T?and type the following commands.

Step 1 : Laravel installation

composer global require "laravel/installer"        

Step 2 : Add composer to path .bashrc file to access laravel globally

cd ~
sudo nano .bashrc        

Step 2(i): Edit environment config path file and by adding this line

export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.config/composer/vendor/bin"        

Step 2(ii) :Hot Reload config path

source ~/.bashrc        

Step 3 : Create a new Laravel application

laravel new mail        

Step 4 : Install missing composer packages and their dependencies

cd mail
composer install && composer update        

Step 5: Test the application

Open the application using your favorite IDE i.e?PHPstorm?or?code

php artisan serve        

Step 6: Stop server afterwards.

You have successfully installed and tested laravel globally.Well done. Terminate?php server?in terminal by pressing =>

Ctrl+C        

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