artur33s's avatar

What local server to use for mac

I bought a MacBook, I always used windows. And I had an open server installed, everything was fine for me. Now I hach to find out what to use for mac os. thanks for answers

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tykus's avatar

Many on here use Laravel Valet, which requires Homebrew to be installed. Valet uses Nginx as the web server along with several other dependencies.

jlrdw's avatar

I would use what you are most comfortable with.

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Tray2
4 years ago
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I would go with Laravel Valet, there are however some alternatives

  • Laravel Homestead
  • Laravel Sail (Docker)
  • Docker with a custom lemp or lamp setup
  • Virtualbox with a custom lemp or lamp stack
  • Apache2 (with php and database of choice)
  • NginX (with php and database of choice)
  • Mamp (I don't recommend this one though)
  • Xamp (I don't recommend this one though)
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artur33s's avatar

Thanks you, Im using PhpMyAdmin,Mysql,apache2,php 8, and Laravel 8 <3. Laravel Valet have PhpMyAdmin>?

marosmjartan's avatar

Why would you use phpmyadmin? Download tableplus or similar database client. Phpmyadmin is just such an "emergency" for shared hostings :)

artur33s's avatar

Thank you, I started using Laravel Valet. Dont have problem...

artur33s's avatar

Hi guys, Im using PhpMyAdmin,Php8,Laravel,Mysql and i using +10 project everyday.

martinbean's avatar

@artur33s I’d suggest Laravel Homestead. Boots up a self-contained development environment with everything you need (PHP, nginx, MySQL, etc) which means you then don’t have to go installing them in your actual macOS.

If you work on multiple projects, it means you can also work on projects with different PHP versions. Unlike if you use PHP in macOS or Homebrew, where you’ll have to constantly keep switching between whatever version you need and can only work with one at a time.

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