Composer is very slow while downloading Laravel

Question

can you help me please? I want to install Laravel via composer create-project laravel/laravel in to the cms directory but Composer downloads it very very slow. Can you help me with it how to boost it?

Here is my terminal:

saidalo@Saidalo-Yodgoroff:/var/www/html$ composer create-project laravel/laravel cms "5.1.*"
Installing laravel/laravel (v5.1.33)
  - Installing laravel/laravel (v5.1.33)
    Downloading: 100%         

Created project in cms
> php -r "copy('.env.example', '.env');"
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
  - Installing vlucas/phpdotenv (v1.1.1)
    Downloading: 100%         

  - Installing symfony/var-dumper (v2.7.11)
    Downloading: 100%         

  - Installing symfony/translation (v2.7.11)
    Downloading: Connecting...

I don't know what to do!

Answer 1

Try

composer config --global repo.packagist composer https://packagist.org

to force https

Answer 2

There is a package to speed up your composer. It may be useful

1. Disable Xdebug Turn it off and be happy.

2. Use Prestissimo is a global Composer plugin that installs dependencies in parallel. It is crazy fast. It’s worth noting that Prestissimo requires cURL, which may not work behind certain firewalls or proxies. I haven’t run into any issues at all personally.

Source: composer speed up from laravel