how to start a laravel project code example

Example 1: create laravel project

composer create-project laravel/laravel example-app

cd example-app

php artisan serve

Example 2: how to start composer in laravel project on localhost

php artisan serve
  /* 
To START composer in project folder on MacOS: 
  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
AFTER: php artisan serve TERMINAL SHOWS:
Laravel development server started: <http://127.0.0.1:8000>

IN WEB BROWSER ENTER THE:
http://127.0.0.1:8000 , OR:
http://localhost:8000/
AND YOU ARE IN ! ! !
  */
http://127.0.0.1:8000/
http://localhost:8000/

Example 3: create project command in laravel

Before starting this hope you installed composer dependancy manager for PHP.
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So if you want to create a project by name of 'first_laravel_app' in directory C:/xampp/htdocs/ then what you need to do is

Locate your project parent directory using cmd
>cd c:/xampp/htdocs

and fire this command 
>composer create-project laravel/laravel first_laravel_app --prefer-dist

And its done, this is really easy and it also creates Application Key automatically for you.
  
# I hope it will help you.
# Namaste

Example 4: laravel new project

laravel new blog

Example 5: laravelstart project

composer create-project laravel/laravel your-project-name 4.2.*