laravel4cookbook

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Once you have Composer working, make a new directory or navigation to an existing directory and
install Laravel 4 with the following command:
1 composer create-project laravel/laravel ./ —prefer-dist
If you chose not to install Composer globally (though you really should), then the command you
use should resemble the following:
1 php composer.phar create-project laravel/laravel ./ —prefer-dist
Both of these commands will start the process of installing Laravel 4. There are many dependencies
to be sourced and downloaded; so this process may take some time to finish.
Installing Other Dependencies
Our application will do loads of things, so we’ll need to install a few dependencies to lighten the
workload.
AngularJS
AngularJS is an open-source JavaScript framework, maintained by Google, that assists
with running single-page applications. Its goal is to augment browser-based applications
with model–view–controller capability, in an effort to make both development and
testing easier.
Angular allows us to create a set of interconnected components for things like product listings,
shopping carts and payment pages. That’s not all it can do; but that’s all we’re going to do with it
(for now).
To get started, all we need to know is how to link the AngularJS library to our document:
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If this seems too easy to be enough, fret not. AngularJS includes no stylesheets or any other resources.
It’s purely a JavaScript framework, so that script is all you need. If you prefer to keep scripts loading
from your local machine, just download the contents of the file at the end of that src attribute.