Your First Laravel Application

Our goal with this Laravel book to create a guide for those just learning Laravel. This guide will take you from the very beginning of an idea into a real deployable application.

This look at Laravel will not be exhaustive, but if you want a more exhaustive introduction I recommend the book Laravel: Up and Running. This book does expect a few prerequisites and here is what you will need to follow along:

- A local PHP environment (Valet, Homestead, Vagrant, MAMP, etc.).

- A database (I’ll be using MySQL)

- PHPUnit installed.

- Node JS installed.

I am attempting to go through the process of creating a new application just as I would in a real-world environment. In fact, the code and idea are from the community links section on the Laravel News website.