How to update Laravel to 8

Upgrade Laravel to 8 with an example: Learn how to update your existing Laravel project to the latest version with this step-by-step guide.

Updating Laravel to 8

Updating to a newer version of Laravel can be a fairly straightforward process. The steps outlined below will walk you through the upgrade process from Laravel 7 to 8.

The first step is to ensure that your application is running on the correct version of PHP. Laravel 8 requires PHP 7.3 or higher and you'll need to make sure that your server is running the correct version of PHP before you can upgrade.

The next step is to update your Composer dependencies. Make sure that the versions of your dependencies are compatible with Laravel 8. If you are using the Laravel Installer, you can run the command composer update to update all of your dependencies. This can take a few minutes, depending on the size of your application.

After your dependencies are updated, you can run the command composer require laravel/ui to install the Laravel UI package. This package provides the necessary views and assets required for using Laravel's authentication scaffolding.

Now that your dependencies are up to date, you can run the command php artisan migrate to run any pending migrations. This will ensure that your database is up to date before the upgrade.

Finally, you can run the command composer update laravel/framework to update the Laravel framework. This command will update the framework to the latest version of Laravel 8. After the update is complete, you can run the command php artisan optimize to optimize any newly added code.

Updating to Laravel 8 is a fairly straightforward process. Once you have updated your dependencies, run your migrations, and updated the framework, your application should be up and running on the latest version of Laravel.