Why can't I just download Laravel?

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Packagist

Because it's much easier. A dependency is a third party library your project needs to function. People develop their libraries and publish them in packagist.org and then give you a package name you can use to include that library. Composer downloads the version you ask for and also checks the dependencies on that library. Sometimes 2 or more libraries depend on a single library so Composer checks what's the latest version that is compatible with both and downloads it. Also checks wether that library is compatible with your PHP version, also checks for your PHP extensions. Imagine doing all that with zips. Instead of that, you run a command and it checks everything for you.

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Laragon

If you use Windows then laragon has a quick app install for Laravel.

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