Installing Laravel Installer Globally on macOS Catalina

The Laravel Installer provides a simple and easy to use command to spin up new Laravel projects. These instructions will help you install the Laravel Installer on macOS Catalina.

To get started, install the Laravel Installer globally with Composer.

composer global require "laravel/installer"

Next, edit your bash profile using Nano (or your editor of choice):

nano ~/.bash_profile

Add the following line:

export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin"

Press CTRL + X to exit Nano. If you are prompted to save the file, enter Y, and then press enter. If you are not prompted to save the file, no worries, just press enter.

Finally, close and reopen your terminal window, or you can use the source command to reload the bash profile.

source ~/.bash_profile

To test the installation, type the laravel command. If the installation was successful, you will see something like this:

Laravel Installer 3.0.1
Usage:
  command [options] [arguments]
Options:
  -h, --help            Display this help message
  -q, --quiet           Do not output any message
  -V, --version         Display this application version
      --ansi            Force ANSI output
      --no-ansi         Disable ANSI output
  -n, --no-interaction  Do not ask any interactive question
  -v|vv|vvv, --verbose  Increase the verbosity of messages: 1 for normal output, 2 for more verbose output and 3 for debug
Available commands:
  help  Displays help for a command
  list  Lists commands
  new   Create a new Laravel application