Lumen Micro Framework => php artisan key:generate

Question

I\'m trying out the PHP micro Framework Lumen (from Laravel).

One of my first steps was to look into the .env.example file and make a copy of it to have my

Answer 1

Simply use PHP CLI. Run this from your local or a remote command line to generate a random 32-character Lumen APP_KEY:

php -r "echo bin2hex(random_bytes(16));"

Output: bae48aba23b3e4395b7f1b484dd25192

Works with PHP 7.x on Mac and Windows.