Solution To: Laravel 5 Failed opening required bootstrap/../vendor/autoload.php

PROBLEM:
Laravel 5 Failed opening required bootstrap/../vendor/autoload.php

SOLUTION:
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When the new project created the laravel require to load vendors to autoload the libraries , We need to tell composer to update via command:

composer update

Composer is a dependency manager allows you to delegate responsibility for managing your dependencies to a third party.

In some cases, you need to tell composer to install first via ommand:

composer install 

If this does not solve the problem, make sure the following php modules are installed php-mbstring php-dom

To install this extensions run the following in terminal

sudo apt-get install php-mbstring php-dom

once the installation is complete

try running the command in your project root folder

composer install 

REFERENCE:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28468625/laravel-5-failed-opening-required-bootstrap-vendor-autoload-php

Solution To: CodeEnvy Laravel 5.6 which requires PHP 7.1.3 or higher, but the recipe installs PHP 7.0.

PROBLEM:
When you use the eclipse/php:laravel recipe, it installs Laravel 5.6 which requires PHP 7.1.3 or higher, but the recipe installs PHP 7.0.


SOLUTION:
The temporary solution is to manually install PHP 7.2:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get purge php7.0 php7.0-common
sudo apt-get install php7.2-curl php7.2-xml php7.2-zip php7.2-gd php7.2-mysql php7.2-mbstring

REFERENCE:
https://github.com/codenvy/codenvy/issues/2673