Awesome Laravel WSL Dev Machine

You ever make a video for this to demo the setup?

Checked out this setup just to make sure if it uses Insider Build. And yes, it does.

Thing is, WSL is pretty useless on the latest public build. Wait till April update, this will be eventually made available to everyone.

But still, Bash on Windows isn't really such an amazing thing to use. There will be plenty of limitations for the time being like symlinks created inside WSL remaining in the WSL, inability to utilize installed software (e.g. Git or PHP) from inside a Windows app (e.g. the editor of your choice) etc.

At the end of the day, I think it's better to stick to Vagrant or Docker under Hyper-V because they are better isolated and have less edge cases.

For me WSL is not useless in the sense that in my workflow

i use a lot of WSL(BASH) + Docker + VsCode

You will love the interoperability, that allows you to launch windows apps in bash or vice versa...

All my config has it...

I Also use it for production...

I have separate gist for that...

but if you want to see a video tutorial...

Ill planned to make one in my free time...

I am on build 16232 and it is absolutely fantastic....

No more npm issues.

All of the server tech is native linux (Ubuntu) so I actually set up a git, npm, node, php, nginx and in my case both mysql and postgresql server all within the WSL. Right now I set up the virtual host manually on nginx.

To spin up your dev server, you just start the Bash for Windows Desktop which opens instantly. But you do have to run a starter script once there, Its not like a VM where you spin it up and it's running all the apps. (by starter script I mean a shell script that initializes the server programs i need to run ie. service start program etc..)

As far as the hosts file, unless you run acrylic you do have to edit it but you do that once.

But this also means that it has all of the potential for a true Laravel Homestead for WSL concept where your init script uses the homestead.yaml to add vhosts and dbs. Not sure that Ruby even needs to be involved since you are already in the Linux environment once you open up the bash shell.

I haven't tried a Redis on it, or even supervisor & beanstalkd but from the docs it says it is supported.

The objective is to spin up development with the least amount of effort and you cant get any better than this. In under 15 seconds you can be up and running a php, nginx and postgresql linux native server enviro. And it is Snappy.. Yes indeed...