Laravel 8 Tailwind Landing Page with Laragon

09 Jan 2021 — Laragon, Laravel, Tailwind, Guide — 1 min read

You can read the release notes for Laravel 8 here

Let's get started,

Download the latest laragon from this link and install, my edition is laragon full version 4
Check the composer version from terminal with this command

composer -V

if the version is not version 2, you need to upgrade it, tutorial is here

Check the php version, because the minimum PHP version for Laravel 8 is 7.3.0, if you need to add another version, follow this tutorial
Open "Laragon Menu > Quick App > Laravel"
Type your project name, and the terminal will be open and install the laravel to laragon directory
Download tailwind landing page from here and extract to project public folder
Rename "index.html" to "main.html"
Go to "project folder > resources > views"
Create a folder with name "frontend"
Copy "main.html" from public folder and paste to frontend folder above
Rename "main.html" to "index.blade.php"
Go to "project folder > routes" and open "web.php" to your editor
There is few way to change the routes
First, change this code below

Route::get('/', function () {
    return view('welcome');
});

Route::get('/', function () {
    return view('frontend/index');
});

And done, you can check the web via pretty url
Or you can create a controller with this command below, go to project directory and type to the terminal from laragon

php artisan make:controller LandingController

Go to "project folder > app > Http > Controller" and open "LandingController.php"
Add this code below

public function index(Request $request)
    {
        return view('frontend/index');
    }

full code will be like this

Route::get('/', function () {
    return view('welcome');
});

use App\Http\Controllers\LandingController;

Route::get('/',[LandingController::class, 'index']);