Laravel System requirements

Question 1

What is the recommended local development environment for Laravel?

Answer 1

Laravel Homestead: A pre-packaged Vagrant box that provides a local development environment with all the necessary requirements for Laravel.

Question 2

What are the system requirements for installing the Laravel framework?

Answer 2

1. **PHP Version: **PHP >= 7.1.3
2. **OpenSSL PHP Extension: **Required for secure connections.
   PDO PHP Extension: Required for database access.
   Mbstring PHP Extension: Required for multibyte string handling.
   Tokenizer PHP Extension: Required for tokenizing PHP code.
   XML PHP Extension: Required for XML parsing.
   Ctype PHP Extension: Required for character type checking.
   **JSON PHP Extension: **Required for JSON handling.
   BCMath PHP Extension: Required for arbitrary precision mathematics.
3. Database: Laravel supports various databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and SQL Server.
4. Composer: Composer is required for managing dependencies and installing Laravel.
   5. Web Server: A web server such as Apache or Nginx is needed to serve the application.