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PHP Local Development Environment Setup Guide: Everything You Need in One Article

Hikari on March 25, 2024

What is a PHP Local Development Environment? A PHP local development environment is a server environment simulated on a personal compute...
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Adamo Crespi

You forgot symfony cli: no no no, this is a big no 😬

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Hikari

Thanks for your suggestion. I'll look into it :)

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Javi Domenech

For Windows, Laragon is the Best.

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Hikari

Agree.
I'm Mac user.

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nasoma

The cons listed for Laravel Herd are simply not true. There's nothing complex about setting up Laravel Herd, it has nothing to do with vagrant or virtual machines.

This looks like a LiesGPT article.

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Hikari

I don't think we're talking about the same thing.

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Meiyo

Herd and Homestead are not the same thing.

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Fabio Politi

Hi,
And what about Laravel Herd? (I think some days ago they made a Windows version too)

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fullfull567

herd is quite simple, lots of functions have to paid to unlock, including service management

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erickmercedesc

For Window i'm in love with Laragon

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Nacho Colomina Torregrosa

I'm docker fan :)

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Meiyo

Laragon is interesting.
Herd have potential... but not worse the price to me.