create new laravel app

#create new laravel project 
function nlp() {
    DIR="$HOME/projects"

    if [ -d "$DIR/$1" ]; then
        echo "Directory $DIR/$1 exists already."

        return 1
    fi

    cd $DIR
    composer create-project laravel/laravel --prefer-dist $1
    cd $1
    npm install
    git init
    git add -A
    git commit -m "Initial commit"
    code .
}