Deploy a Laravel App in Under 5 Minutes (Laravel Cloud CLI)

So the Laravel cloud team recently launched the Laravel cloud API and the Laravel cloud CLI. So as I wanted to start testing those, I figured why don't we see if we can make a brand new Laravel project and get it deployed on cloud in under five minutes. So let's dive in and see if we can do it. So the first step is I'm going to open up my terminal, switch to my sites directory, and I'm just going to run Laravel new. And I'm going to do Eric El Barnes. I'm thinking, well, as we build this out, let me go through the steps. Um, I will do the liveware starter kit builtin O and yes. Would you like to add team support? No. And we'll do pest. Do you want to install boost for this? I do not because I'm just basically seeing how quick I can get this done. So, it's not really needed for this project. Here we go. So, as this builds out, we can start talking about what we're building. And I thought it would be fun to build me a new basically a new landing page or a new homepage for my for me myself. Uh, basically like some social links, just, you know, a little bit a blurb about me, things like that. So, I think that should be pretty simple. Um, you know, we're not going into tons of features or anything like that, but we're just trying to see if we can create something cool and get it deployed. Um, so now as this finishes up, I think all we have to do to make this quick is I'm just going to go and like run cloud on it and tell it to build me a couple, you know, landing pages. So, here we go. This is done. Now, I'm going to CD into it. Um, and then I'm going to just run Claude. Yes, I trust this folder. And I'm going to say I want you So, as this is building, the prompt I used was, "I want you to make a personal website for Eric El Barnes. I want links to my socials. I want it minimum for the design, and I'd like to use some Sarah fonts for the headings. Just make it look cool." And this is probably my favorite AI use case. I just like give it sort of vague instructions and just let it go do its thing. You know, I don't build out like these super defined tasks for, you know, these fun little projects. I'm just like, this is sort of what my idea is. You just go and do it and we'll see at the end if it's good enough or not. I feel like eight times out of 10, nine times out of 10, it actually does a really good job and I'm impressed with some of the decisions it makes behind the scenes that I don't even think about. While that's running, I'm going to go ahead and commit this to GitHub and that way cloud can just pull it directly from there. Okay, now I have that done. I'm going to switch back over and it looks like it is done. So, let's run it and see what it looks like in the browser. There it is in the browser. Um, it's dark. It's It is a little funky with the uh Eric L and then the space for the bars. But overall, I like the style. It's just different. You know, it's it is minimal and easy. So, we're just going to go with this. um you know, probably I would make some adjustments to my um cloud prompt and tell it to move some stuff around, but for this it's perfect. So now all I have to do is use the cloud CLI, and I should be able to just type in cloud ship and let it run its thing. I'm going to give it a test application name. What region? Um I'm just going to pick Virginia. And then it goes off to the races. and then enable any of the following features. Laravel, hibernation, or a database cluster. For this, I don't need any of those. But for most normal projects, I would install theuler just that way, it's already there and cuz eventually I feel like I always use theuler for something. Um, so it's just good to get in habit for me to just go ahead and have it set up and then I don't have to think about it later. But, uh, but you can do it either way you want. And then it says, would you do you want to deploy the application? And of course we do. Do you want to edit the build and deploy commands before deploying? Um, uh, let's do let's go with no. Let's just let it do its thing. And now is deploying the application to the Lo cloud and it's basically building all the stuff through the API in the background. So, this should run for a minute or so. And then I think after that point, we're going to have a live website. I'm kind of excited to run through this, you know, live as I'm videoing this. I think this is going to be fun. And the deployment has completed in 38 seconds. Wow, that was pretty quick. And do you want to open the site in the browser? Of course we do. And there you go. Boom. That was it. So you can see this is the Larbo Cloud domain. Um it's the site that Claude created for us and everything. Uh, so if I swap back over to my terminal, you can see, you know, from the cloud ship command to basically it being shipped took 38 seconds. And that is quite amazing. Um, so we were able to go from nothing to a fully deployed basic little application in less than 5 minutes. And I think that is amazing. And if you haven't checked out the Laravel um CLI docs or the API docs, you you should do that. It's um over here in the Laravel cloud. And if you haven't checked out the documentation for all this, just go head over to the Laravel Cloud website. Go to docs and API. And then from here, you can see everything about the API, the CLI, including, you know, all the commands you can run, everything else. Um, but it's pretty fullfeatured. But I mean, you can look just in the sidebar. They have endpoints for almost everything you're going to need for probably 99% of use cases. Um, so anyway, it's really sweet. You can go do it today. And just deploying right from the terminal is pretty awesome. So go check that out.