composer laravel create project

You are missing a parameter in the command. It should be in this order:

composer create-project [PACKAGE] [DESTINATION PATH] [--FLAGS]

You're mistakingly specifying your local path as the Composer/Packagist package you wish to create a project from. Hence the "Could not find package" message.

Simply make sure you're specifying the Laravel package and you should be good to go:

composer create-project laravel/laravel /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/test_laravel

I also had same problem then I found this on there documentation page

So if you want to create a project by name of test_laravel in directory /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/ then what you need to do is

go to your project parent directory

cd /Applications/MAMP/htdocs

and fire this command

composer create-project laravel/laravel test_laravel --prefer-dist

that's it, this is really easy and it also creates Application Key automatically for you

There are two simple methods for creating laravel Project

Method 1

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel <project-name>

Method 2

laravel new <project-name>

Method 2 might require you to run one extra command

composer global require laravel/installer

if you face 'laravel command not found' error

composer create-project laravel/laravel ProjectName