Tips on what's needed for a Local Dev Environment

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  • lando

    A development tool for all your projects that is fast, easy, powerful and liberating

    I would say Docker is probably your best bet. There are some projects out there that do a lot of the heavy lifting for you like LandoDev and Devilbox. Also, Homestead (which is NOT Docker) is still a pretty solid pick. https://lando.dev/ http://devilbox.org/ https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/homestead Some reading if you happen to subscribe to php[architect] :wink: https://www.phparch.com/article/the-devilbox-and-docker/ https://www.phparch.com/article/the-workshop-just-use-docker/ https://www.phparch.com/article/the-workshop-using-sail-to-understand-local-development-with-docker/ I would say Docker is probably your best bet. There are some projects out there that do a lot of the heavy lifting for you like LandoDev and Devilbox. Also, Homestead is still a pretty solid pick.

  • devilbox

    A modern Docker LAMP stack and MEAN stack for local development

    I would say Docker is probably your best bet. There are some projects out there that do a lot of the heavy lifting for you like LandoDev and Devilbox. Also, Homestead (which is NOT Docker) is still a pretty solid pick. https://lando.dev/ http://devilbox.org/ https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/homestead Some reading if you happen to subscribe to php[architect] :wink: https://www.phparch.com/article/the-devilbox-and-docker/ https://www.phparch.com/article/the-workshop-just-use-docker/ https://www.phparch.com/article/the-workshop-using-sail-to-understand-local-development-with-docker/ I would say Docker is probably your best bet. There are some projects out there that do a lot of the heavy lifting for you like LandoDev and Devilbox. Also, Homestead is still a pretty solid pick.

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  • php-environment

    Discontinued A global Composer package for setting up pre-configured Docker containers for PHP development.

    As others have mentioned, Laragon is a great option on Windows - another alternative is Docker as others have mentioned. A bit of a shameless plug, but I've actually created a local development environment for PHP that can be used with no next to no Docker knowledge on Windows or Mac, and it's really quick to setup - here's the repo if you're interested

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