Setup Command Added to Laravel's Composer File

Taylor Otwell shipped a setup command to Laravel's Composer file, consolidating typical setup steps into one command to set up a Laravel project. This command is a good starting point, but is easily customizable from project to project based on your application's needs:

{
  "setup": [
    "composer install",
    "@php -r \"! file_exists('.env') || copy('.env.example', '.env');\"",
    "@php artisan key:generate",
    "@php artisan migrate --force",
    "npm install",
    "npm run build"
  ]
}

Many of you might already have a command like this—the setup that ships with Laravel does the following:

• Install Composer dependencies
• If a .env does not exist, copy the .env.example file to .env
• Generate an APP_KEY
• Run database migrations
• Install NPM packages and build them

This makes setting up a typical Laravel project only two commands: setting up the project and running the Composer Dev command:

composer setup
composer dev

When you create a new Laravel application, it will include the setup command. If you have an existing project, just copy the scripts > setup from the Laravel composer.json file.