What is the difference between the laravel new nome-projeto and composer create-project laravel/laravel nome-projeto --prefer-dist ?
In both cases the result is the same but in the case of the composer path, the project folder takes up a lot more space.
What is the best way to work for version 5.1 of the framework?
The difference between them is very subtle. Both will use the composer to install the dependencies of your project.
The difference is that% composer% will download from project releases and --prefer-dist from a domain domain ( link ).
I find laravel new more flexible because it is possible to install a specific version, in Laravel Installer this is not possible.
About the size of the project, both look exactly the same:
