Composer, Vagrant, and VirtualBox 5.1 must be installed

1. Run composer install
2. Run php artisan ide-helper:generate
3. Run vendor/bin/homestead make
4. Run vagrant box add laravel/homestead (choose VirtualBox as your provider)
5. Check if an SSH key already exists ls -al ~/.ssh (look for a file named id_rsa)
   1. if not, generate one using ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "[email protected]"
6. Create a hosts file entry such as .168.10.10 homestead.app
   1. Windows: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
7. Add host_ip: "127.0.0.1" to Line 90 of vendor/laravel/scripts.homestead.php
8. Make a copy of .env.example named .env and customize if you wish
9. Run vagrant up
10. Access the application from your browser at http://homestead.app