Create and Setup Laravel Project in Github

In this blog, we will be discovering how to start and setup a laravel project in Github to start our development using Laravel!

First, create a blank repo in github with no readme.md.

Hold on, do not clone it now, instead, create a laravel project at your preferred folder (for me I will use htdocs) using the following command.

But before getting into the commands, note that your-project-name should be identical to the name of the repo we have made before.

Let’s get back and create our Laravel project using the following command:

composer create-project laravel/laravel your-project-name

or use this command if you want to utilize Laravel’s installer:

laravel new your-project-name

Then after the project is made, initialize a repo by running:

git init

Then add all files and commit them

git add .
git commit

The following step is optional, which is renaming the branch from master to main. if you wanna do this, run:

git branch -M main

After that, all we need is to set the origin remote repository link we can push to our remote server in Github later. if you run git remote -v you will get empty result at this point as we did not add anything yet.

Note that the name origin can be changed to any name you prefer. I prefered to use it to represent our remote repository hosted on github.

So let’s run the following command:

git remote add origin your-remote-repo-link

Finally, we will set the upstream to the same remote repo so we can push to the remote repository on Github.

git push -u origin main

And congratulations, you can now work on your laravel project and use git and github to do version control for your project.

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Enjoy, and have a nice day!