phpmon VS mas

Nico Verbruggen has created an amazing lightweight macOS menubar app called PHP Monitor to effortlessly manage PHP and Valet services. It provides a GUI to manage PHP versions, locate config files, stop & start Valet services and shows helpful information about your setup.

phpmon like node nvm for PHP.

What web dev apps I use... are mac-only? - Laravel Valet + PHP Monitor will be an intuitive substitute for XAMPP; - Homebrew - package manager; - Kaleidoscope - excellent diff; - Transmit - excellent FTP client; - Sequel Ace - SQL client, successor to Sequel Pro, though the interface has suffered; - Paw - API tool (better interface than Postman); - ImageOptim - image compression; - Alfred App - quick launcher (not web dev per se but does help);

PHP Monitor

For Valet I use this also. https://github.com/nicoverbruggen/phpmon

Recently, I wrote an article about how to configure PHP Monitor which provides you the visual information about Laravel Valet and different configurations. It can also let you local PHP configuration file php.ini

Nico Verbruggen has created an amazing lightweight macOS menubar app called PHP Monitor to effortlessly manage PHP and Valet services. It provides a GUI to manage PHP versions, locate config files, stop & start Valet services and shows helpful information about your setup. As you can see in the following screenshot as the final result.

I have a script that installs Homebrew and App Store CLI. Then it automatically installs most of the apps I need. I use homebrew to create an up to date list for this script.

More info on Mac App Store integration: https://github.com/mas-cli/mas

Command Line Tools: iTerm 2 alternative to the default Terminal homebrew mas homebrew bundle

I mainly use the Homebrew to manage almost every app or program, even apps on the App Store using mas. It becomes a bit of a pain when I set up a new MacBook because it takes time for me to look for the list of the apps and programs on my main MacBook and install one them by one on my new MacBook.

Most of my workflow could replicated under Mac. For the "horrible" window management I use amethyst (auto tiling) and Magnet (windows like) for search I use raycast and for software management I do use the cli with homebrew, mas and ports. The cool thing with homebrew cask you can install all programms from the web that aren't in the App Store and the App Store apps will be updated via mas. You can even update your mac with the terminal so everything like in linux.

I found this. https://github.com/mas-cli/mas

Instead, perhaps consider file based backups, and reloading apps. For example, you can have a shell script that can fetch Homebrew, from there, fetch most non-App Store apps with brew install commands, and for App Store apps, use mas for those.