Laravel ecosystems tools ensures a consistent local and remote server environment for code. The system requirements for Laravel development environment is as follows:
- Virtual Machine(Vagrant) or local development environment(MAMP/WAMP/XAMPP/Valet/Homestead)
- PHP >= 5.6.4 for Laravel 5.3 or PHP >= 5.5.9 for 5.1 and 5.2
- OpenSSL PHP extension
- PDO PHP extension
- Mbstring PHP extension
- Tokenizer PHP extension
- Composer – A dependency manager for PHP