When to generate a new Application Key in Laravel

Question

As it automatically sets it for me in my .env file when I create the app. So I don't know when to generate the application key. And if another developer comes in, and clones the app, does he/she need to run PHP artisan key:generate ?

Answer 1

The php artisan key:generate - This is a command that sets the APP_KEY value in your .env file. If you use a version control system like git to manage your project for development, calling git push ... will push a copy of your Laravel project to wherever it is going, but will not include your .env file. So if another developer clones your project using git clone ... they will have to manually enter php artisan key:generate for their app to function correctly.

I hope this helps you.