Laravel Versions

php

I recently returned to a Laravel project and couldn’t remember what the version was. A quick look at the
composer.json helped:

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"laravel/framework": "^8.0",

But which version was that, exactly?

One thing you can do is to run the following command:

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> php artisan --version
Laravel Framework 8.16.1

Perfect! But is there another way, out of interest? Of course!

Take a peek at your composer.lock file in the root of your project:

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{
            "name": "laravel/framework",
            "version": "v8.16.1",

That makes sense since the lock file, err, locks versions. Any other ways?

Yes, one more: Take a look at \vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Foundation\Application.php

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class Application extends Container implements ApplicationContract, CachesConfiguration, CachesRoutes, HttpKernelInterface
{
    /**
     * The Laravel framework version.
     *
     * @var string
     */
    const VERSION = '8.16.1';

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