markbuggler's avatar

Is there any server that you would recommend to use with Laravel for local development?

Im using Laravel for the first time and learning a lot. I REALLY like it. Anyway, title question. Im currently using Xampp, but is there any other server that you think everyone should start using? Thanks!

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gator's avatar

I presume you mean on Windows?

This is the closest you can get to Laravel valet on windows : https://laragon.org/

I highly recommend it.

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jcmargentina's avatar
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Laragon is a ery good choice ... but I would recommend ... for local development just use MySQL/MariaDB and PHP ... and execute

php artisan serve 

on your command prompt to tets your project ... just that my friend

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muessam's avatar

For anyone who might come to this post now, you can use FlyEnv as your local development server especially after upgrading to laragon 7 which requires to purchase license;

jlrdw's avatar

@muessam Why buy a server when there's herd, and nginx and apache are free. Just saying...

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