One last thing before you can create a dev site, is you need to install MySQL. Valet installs Nginx as your local web server instead of Apache, but that doesn’t really matter, because Valet also makes it simple to create the Nginx virtual host. Update Homebrew (if you’ve not just installed it).Once that’s all set up, you can follow the Laravel Valet installation instructions, which is 3 steps: Homebrew is one line to install, Composer is a couple of commands to download, and then another to make sure Composer is installed globally, so you can run Composer commands from any location. Each of these has its own simple to follow installation instructions: To get Laravel Valet working on your Mac, you’ll need to have Homebrew and Composer installed. It’s straightforward to set up and install and creating new local dev sites is a breeze. I tried every local development environment I could find, and I can finally say I understand why everyone raves about Laravel Valet. When I started using a MacBook earlier this year, I wanted the same “ease of set up” as I experienced on Ubuntu. On more recent versions of Ubuntu, you can even just replace the 3 terminal commands with one single command to install the entire lamp-server stack. Because Rasmus Lerdorf, the creator of PHP, spent a lot of time making Linux, Apache, and MySQL the perfect stack for PHP, it’s literally 3 terminal commands and an Apache vhost configuration file, and you have a working local site. One of the main reasons I switched from Windows to Ubuntu for my development workstation back in 2006 was that I was tired of complicated setups for managing local development environments.

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