Technical requirements

This chapter will cover the framework and the application server setup (installation and configuration).

The assumption is that you have already installed PHP and Composer. We recommend you have PHP (at least version 8.0) and Composer updated to the latest version.

Typically, we have two main approaches for installing languages and development tools. The first one is to install the tools directly in the operating system of your machine. The second one is to install the tools in an isolated environment such as a virtual machine or Docker.

If you want to follow the instructions and the examples in the book with Docker, the assumption is that you have Docker Desktop already installed on your machine.

For Docker, we will provide you instructions in order to have an image up and running with PHP and Composer.

With this approach, you will be able to run commands and follow examples the same way, regardless of whether you have Docker or want to run PHP...