There are generally two ways to check laravel version. We can check laravel version -
1. using command line
2. Can directly check from source file.
Using command line :
To check laravel verion usiong command line for ubuntu we use termial and for windows system we use cmd. For both case first you need to go to your project directory where your laravel is installed. Then open terminal(for ubuntu user) or cmd(for windows user). Then type php artisan --version
Check from source file :
To check using source file : Open your project directory and then go to this path -> vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation. Now you will get Application.php.
Open Application.php page and you will get a constant variable named VERSION
We can use any of the method to check laravel version.