Missing composer.json file while installing composer for Laravel

Question

I am new to Laravel. I am trying to install Composer for Laravel but getting this error:

Composer could not find a composer.json file in C:\\xampp\\htdocs

To initialize a project, please create a composer.json file as described in the https://getcomposer.org/ "Getting Started" section

Answer 1

To create a missing composer.json file, you need to run:

composer global require "laravel/installer"

See: Installing Laravel .