LaraStack — The Best XAMPP Alternative

I built this because I was tired of manually setting up Laravel on Windows.
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I've been working on LaraStack, a Windows-first local development environment for PHP, Laravel, WordPress and MySQL.

I started building it because setting up Laravel projects locally often means dealing with PHP, Composer, MySQL, databases, .env configuration, ports and migrations separately.

LaraStack 3.0 tries to bring those tasks into one desktop workspace.

Some of the features currently included:

One-click Laravel project creation

Automatic Composer detection

Automatic MySQL database creation

Automatic .env configuration

Automatic Laravel APP_KEY generation

Automatic migrations

Dynamic port management

Multiple Laravel project management

Independent Laravel development servers

One-click WordPress setup and management

PHP 8.3

MySQL 8.0

phpMyAdmin

Built-in PHP terminal

Live logs

File management

php.ini editor

PHP/runtime version management

The goal isn't to replace every development workflow. I wanted to make the common Windows PHP/Laravel setup process simpler and reduce the amount of manual configuration.

LaraStack is free forever and currently available for Windows 10/11.

I'm particularly interested in feedback from developers who use XAMPP, Laragon, WAMP, Local or other local development tools.

What would you add or change?

I'm the developer, so I'm happy to answer questions about the architecture, implementation or anything else you're curious about.

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