When you start a new project it is best to stick to some best practices. Skeleton projects provide a basis for starting your project with a good directory structure, documentation, and configuration.

laravel skeleton

The skeleton project from ThePhpLeague is such a project. It provides all common files, such a composer.json, a PHPUnit configuration file and a README.

But how do you easily start a new project with this skeleton as a basis? Let's find out!