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To start using Laravel,
you'll need Composer.

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A PHP development tool that manages
packages and libraries on your computer.

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Check the teacher's notes to
learn more about Composer.

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You'll also need a local development
environment such as MAMP.

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Which we'll be using
throughout this course.

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Besides Composer and MAMP, you'll need
a code editor like Visual Studio Code,

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which is what I'll be
using in this course.

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If you need some help,
check the teacher's notes below for

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instructions on how to set those up.

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It's time to install Laravel.

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First, make sure you have MAMP started.

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Showing green dot indicating
that the Apache and

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MySQL servers are both up and running.

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If you're using Windows,

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check the teacher's notes on how
to install XAMPP and Git Bash.

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Next, create a new directory where you
want to keep your Laravel applications.

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For this example,
create a new folder inside of

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MAMP in the htdocs directory
named laravel_apps.

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When creating a new project, you can name
your working directory whatever you like.

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Finally, open the terminal and
navigate your working directory.

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By typing cd, space and

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dragging the working directory
into the terminal like this.

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This will reveal the path
of your working directory,

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making it super easy to navigate.

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Once you hit Enter, you can see that you
are indeed in the laravel_apps directory.

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The create-project command tells Composer
to create a new project from an existing

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package.

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The --prefer-dist flag tells
Composer to download and

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unzip archives of the dependencies
using GitHub or another API.

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Which speeds up the downloading
of dependencies.

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Check the teacher's notes below for
more on APIs such as GitHub.

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laravel/laravel indicates that this
type of project,is a Laravel project.

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Finally, treehouse is
the name of the project.

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But feel free to use whatever name
you'd like for your project name.

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After the Laravel project has been
created, move back into the terminal,

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and into the project directory,
like this, cd treehouse, Enter.

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Now you can see that we've moved
from the laravel_apps directory

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into the treehouse directory.

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To open your project in
Visual Studio Code on a Mac,

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drag your project folder into the Visual
Studio Code icon located in the dock.

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Alternatively, you can
also open the terminal.

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Then type code, space, period,

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Enter to open Visual Studio Code
in your current working directory.

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If your copy of Visual Studio Code
didn't open, or

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if you're using Windows,
check the teacher's notes

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on how to install the shell command in
Visual Studio Code for Mac and Windows.

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We're off to a great start.

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But first we need to create a new user and
matching database using phpMyAdmin.

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In the next section,
after we create our user and database,

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we'll use Artisan to ensure that our
database is connected to our application.