Laravel Installer

An alternate version of the Laravel installer that reimplements creating projects using previous Laravel versions (which was removed from the original version).

Installation

Install using composer, this will automatically replace the laravel/installer package

composer global require gerardbalaoro/laravel-installer dev-master

Usage

• laravel new [options] [--] [<name> [<version>]]
  • Create a new Laravel application

  Arguments:
    name
    version               Install specified Laravel version
  
  Options:
        --dev             Installs the latest "development" release
        --auth            Installs the Laravel authentication scaffolding
    -f, --force           Forces install even if the directory already exists
  

• laravel cache [options] [--] [<versions>...]
  • Download Laravel packages to cache

  Arguments:
    versions              Versions to download [default: ["master"]]
  
  Options:
    -a, --all             Downloads all releases
        --clean           Cleans cache directory
  

• laravel versions
  • Show available Laravel versions

Example

To create a new Laravel 5.8 project, run the command:

$ laravel new blog 5.8

Caching

This package automatically caches the Laravel package every time the new command is executed. This is very useful when creating projects while offline.

Updates

Updates to laravel/installer will be merged to this one.