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@sinnbeck so this act as a replacement for homestead?
Sep 7, 2020
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Laravel Served - New laravel package for setting up a development environment (docker)
I am currently working on a new package for laravel called Served. It is meant to make it very easy for people to start a development environment using laravel (like php artisan serve. It uses a laravel config file to manage your services, meaning it should be easy to set up and use.
The package requires
- Php (cli)
- Docker
- Laravel
It has been tested on ubuntu, and windows (xampp). I don't own a Mac, but feel free to give it a try as I assume that it will work there as well.
In theory you can just install it and run php artisan served:up to get everything you need (php 7.4, Nginx 1.9.2, and mysql 5.7) to start working
Be aware that this is still a beta package, and I am just hoping to get some feedback
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Yeah homestead or just php artisan serve
If I quickly want to work on a new project, I find it takes some time to get it up and running (often I use different versions of php and mysql). This just let's me spin up an environment in a couple of minutes
The idea is to kinda mimic docker compose, but without the user having to know docker setup
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@sinnbeck sweet. i'm mostly using homestead as it means I can ignore local php MySQL versions, and whilst its a bit of a spin up time, it serves its purpose.
your package, using docker, should be nicer as I wont be full up of VMs. will check it out. I'm Mac based so can give you some feedback if you want any.
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That would be awesome
composer create-project laravel/laravel --prefer-dist blog
cd blog
composer require sinnbeck/laravel-served --dev
//add this to env
SERVED_NAME=some_name
//change database
DB_HOST=mysql
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=laravel
DB_USERNAME=laravel
DB_PASSWORD=password
php artisan served:up
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@sinnbeck (y) - will give it a look later and report back.
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How does it compare to Takeout ?
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It is very much inspired by takeout but as I don't own a Mac I haven't been able to test it out yet (I know they are getting it to work with Linux now).
Thet solve the same issue but in different ways.
Takeaway runs anywhere using a global composer executable. So you make mysql (etc) globally that you use across projects
Served is set up using a config file inside of laravel and is bound to that project. It also supplies both a webserver and php inside of docker, meaning you full environment is running docker.
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Ah yes sorry. You will actually need to have docker installed :)
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@sinnbeck I thought I did, but turns out I didn't on this Mac (one of 3 on the network).
with that small technicality out of the way, I'm pleased to report that served installed and works as you intended.
The only thing of note on the installer was the following message:
ERROR : docker: Error response from daemon: Ports are not available: listen tcp 0.0.0.0:3306: bind: address already in use.
I assume due to some homestead instances being up at the same time?
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Ah yes. Might end up changing that default. Publish the config, and change it to another port. Then run the served:up command again
Run this to publish
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Sinnbeck\LaravelServed\ServedServiceProvider"
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And to migrate etc you can enter the php container with
php artisan served:ssh
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@sinnbeck installed and working. very nice. how is it for memory usage and what would be the approach of getting x-debug enabled in the php.ini?
Happy to carry this on over at the package page (you'll see me as iammikek on GitHub)
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@automica I am running Ubuntu so mine is probably alot different than yours. And xdebug is enabled by default. Port 9001 (avoiding 9000 as fpm runs on that port). Check the config.
I use it myself with phpstorm using remote debugger config
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