Laravel5: Get base url or home url of the Laravel application [duplicate]

Question

How can I get the base url or home url of the Laravel application ?

I have seen similar question. And all of them are based on laravel 4. I have tried the suggesting answer But none of these work in laravel 5. So please consider this things before vote down or treat this as a duplicate.

Answer 1

You can get the base url of the Laravel application by:

echo url('/'); 

or

{{ url('/') }} 

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