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Hi all, so im a bit new to the eco system. I come from JS/TS heavy background and im mainly a vue dev.
I have installed the laravel vue starter kit, and running composer run dev, as it suggest, takes around 500ms to get a page response? Which is extremely slow.
When I use herd, its much better, around 200-300ms, but it's still not good for something like a login page honestly. Not sure whats going on.
When I use my macbook, its 70ms?
Has anyone had similar experiences? If so any fixes? My windows machine is pretty good, maybe some bottleneck?
On Windows I have apache, php, and mariadb installed from the zip versions, and I have not noticed loading that slow.
So try apache or nginx is my suggestion.
Sometimes any server can be a little slower at times on very first page load. Also do you have any debugging tools in use?
Will try running it old-school then. Thanks for the advice. Using mainly debugbar and inspect. I'll try with apache and reinstall php. As its been a while perhaps it's out of date as it just now came to mind. But honestly the difference between Mac and Windows is what surprised me. Will update once I'll try.
I was only mentioning the way I setup. But have you looked at laravel herd?
Disable Windows Defender or add project folder and executables to exclusion list.
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