Chapter 2. Setting Up a Development Environment
Laravel is more than just a framework: a whole ecosystem and toolset has been developed around it to make building PHP applications faster and more enjoyable. These tools are entirely opt-in and the knowledge of them is not necessary to use and build projects in Laravel, but they do go hand-in-hand with the framework, so it's worth covering.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Meeting Composer, a dependency manager
- Introduction to Homestead, and using it to manage Laravel projects
Meeting Composer
In the previous chapter, you discovered that Laravel is built on top of several third-party packages. Rather than including these external dependencies in its own source code, Laravel uses a ...
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