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

Installing specific laravel version with composer create-project

composer global require laravel/installer

Then, if you want install specific version then just edit version values "6." , "5.8."

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel Projectname "6.*"

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