You probably already know that, at Tighten, we love working with Laravel, a framework that helps make web application development fast, fun and easy.

In this "Learning Laravel" series, we'll explore various features of the Laravel framework in fun, easily consumable projects. The content for this series is ideally suited for people who have already had a basic introduction to the Laravel framework, and are interested in diving deeper. If you, instead, are looking to build your very first Laravel project, check out Laravel Basics at Onramp.

• Laravel 9
• PHP 8.1
• MySQL

1. Install composer dependencies: composer install.
2. Install NPM dependencies: npm install.
3. Start your .env file: cp .env.example .env.
4. Generate an application key for your project: php artisan key:generate.
5. Run migrations: php artisan migrate.
6. Build front end assets: npm run dev.
7. Run your application in the browser: php artisan serve