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To get started with a development server running on your localhost, use: php -S localhost:8000 -t public from the root of your project directory.
Make sure that you have Composer, NPM, and, of course, PHP installed. Because I (Peter) like gulp, that's what I'm using to automate some stuff.
Gulp is pretty useful for development work. Right now, I just have a few layers of Gulp rules set up. The ones that should be run as gulp <rule> are below:
scss - compile app.scss and place it in public
watch - just watches all .scss files in assets for changes and
re-runs scss on change
serve - start a php server for the project on localhost:8080
bsync - start a php server, and then start a Browser Sync proxy
that listens on the same port, so that changes to blades
and .scss files are carried through. JS not yet watched.