laravel/valet

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Laravel Valet is a minimal local development environment for macOS that runs Nginx in the background and uses DnsMasq to route *.test domains to local sites. It provides a blazing-fast, low-memory (~7 MB) alternative to Vagrant or Docker-based setups for PHP and Laravel development.

Use cases

• serve local php sites on *.test domains
• run laravel apps locally without vagrant or docker
• share my local dev site publicly via a tunnel
• use https locally with tls certificates
• run different php versions per site
• serve wordpress or symfony projects locally
• expose local site to other devices on my network

When to choose

• you develop PHP or Laravel apps on macOS and want a lightweight, fast local server
• your machine has limited RAM and you want to avoid Vagrant or Docker overhead
• you want zero-config *.test domains and per-site PHP versions
• you need to quickly share a local site via tunnels

When to avoid

• you are on Linux or Windows (use Herd, Homestead, Sail, or other tools instead)
• you need full environment parity with production, containers, or databases provisioned like production
• you need a complete virtualized environment rather than a native local server

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

http-server deployment developer-tools cli web-development developer-tools self-hosted cli laravel php nginx dnsmasq local-development dev-environment tunneling command-line macos

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