laravel local development setup code example
Example 1: how to start composer in laravel project on localhost
php artisan serve
// The original answer is:
/*
The full command works like this:
php artisan serve --host=<host IP address> --port=<port to use>
php artisan serve --host=127.0.0.1 --port=8080
*/
Example 2: laravel 4 installer
composer global require "laravel/installer=~4.0"