The Root folder of Laravel contains the following folders and files:
| app | The core code of the application. | ||
| Console | Contains all the artisan commands | ||
| Events | Events that the application can raise. | ||
| Exceptions | The application exception handler and a good place to stick any exceptions thrown by the application | ||
| Http | Controllers, filters and requests | ||
| Jobs | Queable Jobs for the application | ||
| Listeners | Handler classes for events. | ||
| Policies | Various application policies | ||
| Providers | Various service providers | ||
| bootstrap | The application bootstrapping script | ||
| config | Application configuration files | ||
| app.php | Application config parameters | ||
| auth.php | Authentication settings | ||
| broadcasting.php | Broadcasting settings | ||
| cache.php | Caching settings | ||
| database.php | Database settings | ||
| filesystems.php | Filesystems settings | ||
| mail.php | Mailing settings | ||
| queue.php | Queuing settings | ||
| services.php | Services settings | ||
| session.php | Session settings | ||
| view.php | View settings | ||
| database | Database migrations and seeds | ||
| public | Document root of the application. This will start the Laravel application. Also contains the assets of the application like JavaScript, CSS, images, etc... | ||
| resources | Contains raw assets like LESS and SASS files, localization and language files and templates rendered as views | ||
| storage | Application storage like file uploads, cache and application generated log files | ||
| tests | Contains various test cases | ||
| .env | Environment settings for running the application (see notes below) | ||
| .env.example | Sample that can be used as template for your own .env file |
Laravel provides facility to run your application in different environment like testing, production etc. You can configure the environment of your application in the .env file of the root directory of your application. If you have installed Laravel using composer, this file will automatically be created.
In case you haven’t installed Laravel, you can simply rename the .env.example file to .env file.