All you need is to have php and composer installed on your system to get started. Any additional services like MySQL, Redis or a mail server you can run in docker but with the latest Laravel releases you can use its default SQLite setup as database and queue.
Alternatively you can run everything in docker using Laravel sail and not worry about installing anything on your system.
All the other tooling and packages like breeze are just conveniences that give you additional capabilities
Alternatively you can run everything in docker using Laravel sail and not worry about installing anything on your system.
All the other tooling and packages like breeze are just conveniences that give you additional capabilities