Laravel: Get base url

Question

Simple question, but the answer seems quite hard to come by. In Codeigniter, I could load the url helper and then simply do

echo base_url();

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Answer 1

Laravel provides bunch of helper functions and for your requirement you can simply

use url() function of Laravel Helpers

but in case of Laravel 5.2 you will have to use url('/')

here is the list of all other helper functions of Laravel