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

I used this and it worked for me in Laravel 5.3.18:

IMPORTANT NOTE: This will only work when you have already removed "public" from your URL. To do this, you may check out this helpful tutorial.