General Steps to follow While downloading project from GitHub

 1) Run git clone or  download zip

//if you don't find any files, then the clone is in a different branch

        To see all the branches:

                git branch -a

        To go to that branch

                git checkout branchName

2) Run composer install

3) cp .env.example .env

4) php artisan key:generate

5) php artisan migrate

//php artisan migrate --seed

6) php artisan serve

You will see your website up and running in localhost:8000