How to Install Laravel and Create first View Page in Laravel ?

2 min readJul 6, 2021

In this tutorial im going to describe how to install laravel project and create first view pages, so follow some easy steps define below.

First let’s go to install laravel project

composer create-project laravel/laravel learning-project "5.8.*"

lets go to .env folder and put database name and connect to database.

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=learning-project
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=

Now migrate the table

php artisan migrate

Now Open your project and go to Resouces/view folder and create folllowing files

create.blade.php
dashboard.blade.php
home.blade.php
blog.blade.php

Go to create.blade.php and paste below code

<h1>this is create pages</h1>

Next go to dashboard.blade.php and paste below code

<h1>this is dashboard pages</h1>

Now create blog.blade.php file and paste below lines.

<h1>this is blog pages</h1>

Next go to Route/web.php and add below line

Go to Route/web.php

<?php

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Web Routes
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here is where you can register web routes for your application. These
| routes are loaded by the RouteServiceProvider within a group which
| contains the "web" middleware group. Now create something great!
|
*/

Route::get('/', function () {
    return view('welcome');
});

Route::get('/dashboard', function (){
    return view('dashboard');
});

Route::get('/create', function (){
    return view('create');
});

Route::get('/blog', function (){
    return view('blog');
});