This assumes that you have never run Laravel on your machine. If you're on Windows, stop reading this and install Homestead - it provisions a virtual machine with all of the necessary software installed.
- Install homebrew - https://brew.sh/
- Install composer - https://getcomposer.org/download/
- Make sure you can open a terminal and run
composer. If not, make sure it's linked to your path. If you don't know what that means, follow the next step and ask me for help! brew install tmateso I can ssh into your laptop occasionally to debug and help- Install php -
brew install php - Use a specific version of php (if necessary) - e.g. php 7.4 -
valet use php@7.4 - Install valet -
composer global require laravel/valet - Set up valet:
valet install