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Create new laravel project via docker with one liner.

hokutoasari — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 21:49:27 +0000

Just run follow command.

% docker run --rm -i -t -v $PWD:/app composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel (YOUR PROJECT NAME HERE)

* - i and -t is not requirement, it's just a prettier.
* Also --rm too, it's to remove unnecessary containers.

Requirements

Installed docker(ex. Docker desktop for mac, windows or just Docker for linux)

What's doing this command?

Fetch composer(latest) image from docker hub.(https://hub.docker.com/_/composer)
Mount $PWD path of host to /app of container directory.
Run create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel (YOUR PROJECT NAME HERE) in fetched container.
Finally, you can see laravel project files in (YOUR PROJECT NAME HERE) directory.

Why mount `/app` directory?

The /app directory is specified working directory, from composer image via https://github.com/composer/docker/blob/582c6f4e10b6b8fbf9bc1c5b02d6ec24694fe8d4/2.0/Dockerfile#L60.

So, if composer's Dockerfile updated, then we must change mount directory path.

Specific version for laravel

If you want use specific version laravel, then you can use "laravel/laravel=6.*" statement in your command.