How to start the Laravel application in Localhost?

Question

App Structure

• ovss
• • vsdapp
• • vsd

I am coming from ReactJs and not able to start the app in the local server xampp.

Following steps, I performed

1. Downloaded the folders in htdocs in xampp
2. Run composer update

if I run cmd PHP artisan serve, I get a public path error and if I run code in xampp, then no file found please have a look at the following pictures for reference.

I am new to Laravel and will be studying this soon but right now have to start a local project.

App Structure

vsdapp not found

cmd php artisan serve giving this error

vsdapp files

vsd files

Answer 1

I had to change the base URL to localhost.