I had been away from laravel for a few months and today, when I decided to take a look at it again and install laravel/valet, the composer just wouldn't work.
Abhizer@Abhizer > ~/Development > composer global require "laravel/valet" Changed current directory to /Users/Abhizer/.composer Using version ^2.7 for laravel/valet ./composer.json has been updated Loading composer repositories with package information Updating dependencies (including require-dev) Installation failed, reverting ./composer.json to its original content. [ErrorException] "continue" targeting switch is equivalent to "break". Did you mean to use "continue 2"? require [--dev] [--prefer-source] [--prefer-dist] [--no-progress] [--no-suggest] [--no-update] [--no-scripts] [--update-no-dev] [--update-with-dependencies] [--ignore-platform-reqs] [--prefer-stable] [--prefer-lowest] [--sort-packages] [-o|--optimize-autoloader] [-a|--classmap-authoritative] [--apcu-autoloader] [--] []...
Turns out, it has a pretty simple fix!
composer self-update
That's all!