Challenge 1: Create Your First Project — Possible Solution
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composer create-project laravel/laravel library
cd library
php artisan serve
# INFO  Server running on [http://127.0.0.1:8000].
# Visiting that URL in a browser shows Laravel's default welcome page.

TOP-LEVEL FOLDERS GENERATED, AND WHAT EACH IS FOR
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- app/          — Application code: Controllers, Models, and other core
                  classes (the equivalent of Django's per-app views.py/models.py,
                  just organized by role instead of by feature).

- bootstrap/    — Framework bootstrapping files and a cache directory Laravel
                  uses internally to speed up loading configuration and routes.

- config/       — Configuration files split by topic (database.php, app.php,
                  mail.php, etc.), each reading its real values from .env.

- database/     — Migrations (schema change history), factories, and seeders
                  for generating test/sample data.

- public/       — The actual web server document root; index.php here is the
                  single entry point every request passes through.

- resources/    — Blade view templates, plus raw CSS/JS source files before
                  any build step.

- routes/       — URL routing definitions — web.php for browser-facing
                  routes, api.php for API routes.

- storage/      — Generated files: logs, cached views, file uploads — meant
                  to be writable by the web server, not committed with
                  application data in it.

- tests/        — PHPUnit test files (relevant again in Course 2's testing
                  chapter).

- vendor/       — Composer-installed dependencies (Laravel itself and every
                  package it depends on) — analogous to Python's site-packages,
                  and, like node_modules, never committed to source control.

WHY THIS WORKS
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- composer create-project laravel/laravel library both downloads Laravel
  and every package it depends on (via Composer, PHP's package manager)
  AND scaffolds a fresh application skeleton in one command — comparable
  to running pip install django followed by django-admin startproject,
  just combined into a single step.
- php artisan serve starts a simple built-in development server (Laravel's
  equivalent of python manage.py runserver) — suitable for local
  development only, not production, the same caveat Django's runserver
  carries.