Local WordPress development with Laravel Valet w/ a GUI

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  • valet

    A more enjoyable local development experience for Mac. (by laravel)

  • Laravel Valet is a development environment for macOS and configures your Mac to always run Nginx in the background when your machine starts, and then, using DnsMasq, proxies all requests on the *.test domain to point to sites installed on your local machine.

  • DBngin

    DB Engine

  • DBngin provides a free, all-in-one database management tool that includes MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Redis. After DBngin has been installed, you can connect to your database at 127.0.0.1 using the root username and an empty string for the password.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • phpmon

    Lightweight, native Mac menu bar app that helps you manage multiple PHP installations, locate config files and more. Also interacts with Laravel Valet.

  • 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.

  • HomeBrew

    šŸŗ The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

  • Homebrew is a free and open-source software package management system that simplifies the installation of software on Appleā€™s operating system, macOS, as well as Linux. The name is intended to suggest the idea of building software on the Mac depending on the userā€™s taste.

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