Composer hanging while updating dependencies

Question

I tried updating a Laravel project I\'m working on today using composer update

But it hung on Updating dependencies (including require-dev)

Answer 1

Check if you are running the minimum required php version

Compare with the specified required php version in the composer.json file

Open terminal run

php -v

Cross check in composer.json file see example below

"require": { "php": "^7.1.3", }