Installing LaravelUi5

In this lesson, I’ll walk you through setting up a clean Laravel project and installing LaravelUi5 Core. You’ll learn why we use composer create-project instead of laravel new, how to handle forks and VCS repositories, and how to configure Composer’s minimum-stability setting. By the end, you’ll have LaravelUi5 installed and ready to go inside a fresh Laravel baseline.

Quick Reference

These are the commands and snippets from this video. For the why and the bigger picture, be sure to follow along in the video above.

1. Lodata Fork

Add this snippet to your composer.json > repositories property.

{
    "type": "vcs",
    "url": "https://github.com/pragmatiqu/lodata"
}

2. Minimum Stability

Set composer.json > minimum-stability to dev.

3. Composer Require

composer require laravelui5/core

Code

To get the exact code with all edits in this video applied, run

git checkout episode-02