Change public directory in Laravel 5

Just 3 steps are required to change the public directory:

1. Cut all the files and folders in public directory and paste it to root folder
2. Update the index.php as below:

   <?php
   
   /**
    * Laravel - A PHP Framework For Web Artisans
    *
    * @package  Laravel
    * @author   Taylor Otwell <taylorotwell@gmail.com>
    */
   
   /*
   |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
   | Register The Auto Loader
   |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
   |
   | Composer provides a convenient, automatically generated class loader for
   | our application. We just need to utilize it! We'll simply require it
   | into the script here so that we don't have to worry about manual
   | loading any of our classes later on. It feels nice to relax.
   |
   */
   
   require __DIR__.'/bootstrap/autoload.php';
   
   /*
   |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
   | Turn On The Lights
   |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
   |
   | We need to illuminate PHP development, so let us turn on the lights.
   | This bootstraps the framework and gets it ready for use, then it
   | will load up this application so that we can run it and send
   | the responses back to the browser and delight our users.
   |
   */
   
   $app = require_once __DIR__.'/bootstrap/app.php';
   
   // set the public path to this directory
   $app->bind('path.public', function() {
   	return __DIR__;
   });
   
   /*
   |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
   | Run The Application
   |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
   |
   | Once we have the application, we can handle the incoming request
   | through the kernel, and send the associated response back to
   | the client's browser allowing them to enjoy the creative
   | and wonderful application we have prepared for them.
   |
   */
   
   $kernel = $app->make(Illuminate\Contracts\Http\Kernel::class);
   
   $response = $kernel->handle(
   	$request = Illuminate\Http\Request::capture()
   );
   
   $response->send();
   
   $kernel->terminate($request, $response);

3. Update the elixir parameters in gulpfile.js:

   elixir.config.publicDir = '';
   elixir.config.publicPath = '';
   
   elixir(function(mix) {
   	mix.sass('app.scss');
   });

P.S.: Always use ‘url()’ function for every assets like images, css, js
You can also use, url(elixir(‘css/all.css’))