Some knowledge of the command line, Docker, and MySQL would be very helpful; however, it is not fully required, as all commands and examples are accompanied by brief instructions.

You need to have the following tools installed on your machine:

• Node.js and NPM
• Docker
• A code editor—we recommend that you use Visual Studio Code
• Git source control is recommend but not required

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CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here

is an example: "All PHP projects that use Composer have a file called composer.json at the root project."

A block of code is set as follows:

{
 "require": {
     "laravel/framework": "5.*.*",
 }
}

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composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel chapter-01

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"Search for the chapter-01 folder, and click Open."