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lexa's avatar
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Laravel Herd on Linux

Is there any chance that Laravel Herd will be available on Linux?

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MouteeSabouni's avatar

As @tray2 said, not really. But you have the following alternatives:

  1. Sail: An official Laravel-provided Docker development environment. It works cross-platform and is a great alternative for Linux users. It provides a pre-configured Docker setup with PHP, MySQL, Redis, and other services required for Laravel development.
  2. Valet Linux or Valet Linux+ or Valet WSL: Valet was originally a macOS tool, but a Linux version called Valet Linux is available. It provides a fast, local development environment that serves your projects using Nginx.
  3. Homestead: It provides a virtual machine with all the necessary software to run a Laravel application, including PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, etc.
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guillaumeg87's avatar

Hi,

I discover Laravel, and Laravel Sail is easy to use on linux environment (Xubuntu for me), with a different presentation but if you have Docker engine on your computer it should be easy to start quickly ^^

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