Whatever machine you’re developing on will need to have Composer installed glob‐ ally. If you’re not familiar with Composer
Composer is a dependency manager for PHP, much like NPM for Node or RubyGems for Ruby. But like NPM, Composer is also the founda‐ tion of much of our testing, local script loading, installation scripts, and much more. You’ll need Composer to install Laravel, update Laravel, and bring in external depen‐ dencies.
For many projects, hosting your development environment using a simpler toolset will be enough. If you already have MAMP or WAMP or XAMPP installed on your system, that will likely be fine to run Laravel. You can also just run Laravel with PHP’s built-in web server, assuming your system PHP is the right version
However, Laravel offers two tools for local development, Valet and Homestead, and we’ll cover both briefly. If you’re unsure of which to use, I’d recommend using Valet and just becoming briefly familiar with Homestead; however, both tools are valuable and worth understanding.
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