My Laravel Setup

This is a writeup on how I setup my local development to help make sure I'm productive working in the Laravel framework.

Setup the Project

I like to use my Laravel 9 Starter repo since it has Laravel as well as helpful packages I usually use on all my projects. My goal is to run the below steps for a simple setup.

Install Docker on your machine.
https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/

git clone https://github.com/imperez/laravel-9-starter example-project
cd example-project
docker run --rm \
-u "$(id -u):$(id -g)" \
-v $(pwd):/var/www/html \
-w /var/www/html \
laravelsail/php81-composer:latest \
composer install --ignore-platform-reqs
./vendor/bin/sail up

Once this is done you should have a basic Laravel project running in Docker and can be accessed at http://localhost

Setup your Editor

The next phase is to setup an editor. For me I use Microsoft's Visual Studio Code and install below extensions.