Begin by downloading Composer, a tool essential for managing Laravel installations. Visit the following URL to download Composer and install it on your system:
https://getcomposer.org/download/
Step 2 − After the Composer is installed, check the installation by typing the Composer command in the command prompt as shown in the following screenshot.
Step 3 − Create a new directory anywhere in your system for your new Laravel project. After that, move to path where you have created the new directory and type the following command there to install Laravel.
composer create-project laravel/laravel –-prefer-dist
Now, we will focus on installation of version 5.7. In Laravel version 5.7, you can install the complete framework by typing the following command −
The output of the command is as shown below −
The Laravel framework can be directly installed with develop branch which includes the latest framework.
Step 4 − The above command will install Laravel in the current directory. Start the Laravel service by executing the following command.
php artisan serve
Step 5 − After executing the above command.