# Develop and Deploy Laravel applications with Docker Compose — Project structure

> Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```plaintext my-laravel-app/ ├── app/ ├── bootstrap/ ├── config/ ├── database/ ├── public/ ├── docker/ │ ├── common/ │ │ └── php-fpm/ │ │ └── Dockerfile │ ├── development/ │ │ ├── php-fpm/ │ │ │ └── entrypoint.sh │ │ ├── workspace/

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Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```plaintext
my-laravel-app/
├── app/
├── bootstrap/
├── config/
├── database/
├── public/
├── docker/
│   ├── common/
│   │   └── php-fpm/
│   │       └── Dockerfile
│   ├── development/
│   │   ├── php-fpm/
│   │   │   └── entrypoint.sh
│   │   ├── workspace/
│   │   │   └── Dockerfile
│   │   └── nginx
│   │       ├── Dockerfile
│   │       └── nginx.conf
│   └── production/
├── compose.dev.yaml
├── compose.prod.yaml
├── .dockerignore
├── .env
├── vendor/
├── ...
```

This layout represents a typical Laravel project, with Docker configurations stored in a unified docker directory. You’ll find two Compose files — compose.dev.yaml (for development) and compose.prod.yaml (for production) — to keep your environments separate and manageable.

The environment includes a workspace service, a sidecar container for tasks like building front-end assets, running Artisan commands, and other CLI tools your project may require. While this extra container may seem unusual, it’s a familiar pattern in solutions like Laravel Sail and Laradock. It also includes Xdebug to aid in debugging.

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