Laravel pushing assets to the public directory

So today I started learning Laravel & composer (before I was using Yii). I installed with composer so my directory structure is:

• app
• bootstrap
• components
• public
• vendor

I need to include bootstrap and I wanted to be as much professional as it can be, so I added the "components/bootstrap": "dev-master" string in "require" section. But the components folder is not accessible from the "outside" how can I push the composer installed assets to the public directory?

I don't think "components/bootstrap" is the correct package.

Try https://github.com/buonzz-systems/laravel-twitter-bootstrap

After running

php artisan asset:publish

should push bootstrap to the public/packages folder

But since you are new, I say just load the bootstrap manually by copying it to the public folder.