Install Magento 2 with Nginx on Laravel Forge
Here's to do it.
* Create site at Laravel Forge control panel
* set web directory to /pub
* ssh into your server
* get Magento via composer
composer create-project --repository-url=https://repo.magento.com/magento/project-community-edition .
* setup proper file permissions
find . -type d -exec chmod 700 {} \; && find . -type f