The current state of local Laravel development

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on dev.to

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  • docker-compose-laravel

    A docker-compose workflow for local Laravel development

  • That's why I made docker-compose-laravel, and it's what I use as the basis for development environments in all of my Laravel projects.

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  • Laradock

    Full PHP development environment for Docker.

  • Branded as a "full PHP development environment for Docker", Laradock is a powerful and feature-rich set of configuration files for local Laravel development with Docker.

  • Docker Compose

    Define and run multi-container applications with Docker

  • Both of those options will spin up a network of Docker containers using Docker Compose, and expose your application to localhost:80.

  • DBngin

    DB Engine

  • There's still a few dependencies required, but not as much as a full web server stack. You'll need Brew, PHP, and Composer to get started, as well as some kind of local database (e.g. MySQL or PostgreSQL). Laravel's official docs recommends using DBngin to get that set up.

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NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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