How to Check Laravel Version (Full Guide)

There are several ways to check Laravel versions and they are through

Method 1: Laravel Check Version from Command Line

To check version from the command line you can use the command below.

php artisan --version

or the slightly shorter is:

php artisan -v

To check the version from Laravel code you can define your code below. Create a route in web.php and then call the "app()->version()" helper.

<?php

Route::get('get-laravel-version', function () {
    app()->version();
});

The 3rd method is to check from the composer.json file itself, you can inspect the Laravel version.

This is like the 2nd method but you can easily call it from within the tinker command.

php artisan tinker

Then from the interactive shell, you can run the helper below.

app()->version()