Installing specific laravel version with composer create-project

Question

The fastest and simplest way of installing Laravel is via composer command. From the laravel docs (http://laravel.com/docs/quick), it shows that we can install it with this:

Answer 1

To install specific version of laravel try this & simply command on terminal

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel:5.5.0 {dir-name}