Serve command on start

It is not necessary, just an opportunity for development

but laravel won't start until I run it

php artisan serve --port=8000 or 8005

you need a webserver to deal with http requests

you could use apache.

you could use nginx

you could use caddy

etc

or for single user development, you can use php's built in server. php artisan serve starts up php's server

what does your development environment look like?