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thesogafoi's avatar

Laravel Homestead , WIndwos , php and composer installation

Hey Guys I installed Homestead and Use VM For my local host and every things good But i have A little Problem

I use Visual studio Code and i install some extension on it like laravel snippet or PHP Intelephense extension but it required PHP installation on Your Windows Not on VM because i change my Code in cloned File ok ? that mean i open my located windows to change my code and i use vm for local host

and composer , php , mysql installed on my vm and i cannot use Visual Code extensions on my windows Cuz they installed on my vm

how can i fixed

Note : i will not install *AMP applications

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bashy's avatar

It depends what tech you want to use. Docker (laradock) is great if you know and like using Docker. Laragon is your standard package of LEMP (I know you said not installing that but it's all done for you).

I don't use either but on Windows, they're probably the best options.

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