Installing and setting up the dashboard application

To demonstrate the power of Laravel Octane, we are going to build a dashboard page to show event data filtered in different ways. We will keep it as simple as possible to avoid focusing on business functionalities, and we will keep focusing on how to apply techniques for improving performance while keeping the application reliable and error-free.

Installing your Laravel application

As shown in Chapter 1, Understanding the Laravel Web Application Architecture, you can install the Laravel application from scratch via the Laravel command, as follows:

composer global requires laravel/installer

Once you have your Laravel command installed, you can create your application with the following command:

laravel new octane-ch04

The laravel new command creates the directory with your application, so the next step is to enter the new directory to start customizing the application:

cd octane-ch04

Adding a database

Now...