Installation

Get composer and install Laravel installer.

$ composer global require laravel/installer

Add a symlink to laravel to ~/bin.

$ ln -s ~/.config/composer/vendor/laravel/installer/laravel ~/bin/

Create a new project.

$ laravel new alpha

Install Redis on the system, and install the necessary package.

$ composer require predis/predis

Use Redis for Cache and Session. Files are found in ./config/ folder.

Notes on Laravel 5.7