Laravel Valet
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Valet at your service.
A macOS local development environment for Laravel and other PHP frameworks.
Laravel Valet is an easy-to-use local development solution for Laravel developers and others on macOS. It's a command-line tool installed via the Terminal, bundling NGINX, DnsMasq, and other utilities into a convenient CLI.
Installation
Best installed via Homebrew; requires PHP and Composer.
# Install Valet via Composer
composer global require laravel/valet
bash
Examples
# Run the installer
valet install
# Park: Register a directory for all your projects
cd ~/Sites
valet park
# Now ~/Sites/my-project is available at http://my-project.test
# The `park` command registers a directory on your machine that contains your applications. All directories within that directory will be accessible in your web browser at `http://<directory-name>.test`.
# Link: Serve a single site
cd ~/path/to/project
valet link
# Now available at http://project.test
# The `link` command is useful if you want to serve a single site in a directory and not the entire directory.
# Secure: Serve over HTTPS
valet secure my-project
# You can serve your sites over encrypted TLS using HTTP/2 with the `secure` command.
# PHP Versions: Switch globally or per site
valet use php@8.5
cd ~/Sites/legacy-project
valet isolate php@7.4
bash
Database
Valet does not include a database management tool.
Working with fortrabbit
Since Valet runs directly on your host machine, it uses your local SSH keys by default.
Graphical interface
- phpmon.app - a nice UI for Valet