Minor or patch version increase in Laravel can cause problems.

[apolopena]

Since this project is a 'skeleton' in that it is added to gitpod-laravel-starter as an example project it can break if the Laravel version changes. This is beacause Laravel bumps versions of their dev dependencies such as bootstrap on any minor release or patch.
At the time of writing this, the typical Laravel version that gitpod-laravel-starter will use is 8.* which will always give you the latest minor and patch version.

[apolopena]

Although making this project forward compatible with Laravel 8.* is the best thing to do here, in the interest of time, pinning the dev dependencies here in the skeleton project by adding a package.json is probably what I will do.