Laravel 8: Quick Start Guide

Laravel is a popular PHP framework that provides many tools and features to make developing web applications easier and faster. Laravel 8 has been released and it brings many new features and improvements. In this article, we will learn how to get started with Laravel 8 quickly.

Install Laravel 8
To install Laravel 8, you need to meet the following requirements:

PHP>=7.3
MySQL>=5.6 or MariaDB>=10.0
Composer

The easiest way to install Laravel 8 is to use Composer. Enter the following command in the terminal:

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

The above command will create a folder named "blog" in the current directory , and in that folder the latest version of Laravel 8 will be installed.

Create a route
In Laravel, routes are used to map URLs to corresponding controller methods. To create a route, open the routes/web.php file and add the following:

Route::get('/', function () {

return view('welcome');

});

The above code will create a route that maps the website root directory (/) to a view file named welcome. We will create this view file below.

Create a controller
The controller is the center for handling HTTP requests. To create a controller, enter the following command in the terminal:

php artisan make:controller HomeController

The above command will create a HomeController.php file in the app/Http/Controllers directory . Open the HomeController.php file and add the following content:

namespace AppHttpControllers;

use IlluminateHttpRequest;

class HomeController extends Controller
{

public function index()
{
    return view('welcome');
}

}

The above code will create a controller named HomeController and create a method named index that returns a view file named welcome.

Create a view
View is used to display HTML content to users. To create a view, create a file named welcome.blade.php in the resources/views directory and add the following content:

<title>Laravel 8 Quickstart</title>

<h1>Welcome to Laravel 8</h1>

The above code will create an HTML page with the title "Laravel 8 Quickstart" and display a welcome message.

Testing the Application
To test our application, enter the following command in the terminal:

php artisan serve

The above command will launch Laravel’s built-in Web server. You can visit http://localhost:8000 in your browser and you should see a page with the message "Welcome to Laravel 8".

Conclusion
This article introduces how to get started with Laravel 8 quickly. We learned how to install Laravel 8, create routes, controllers and views, and test our application. Laravel 8 brings many new features and improvements, I hope this article will be helpful to you.

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