Based on our record, Local by Flywheel seems to be a lot more popular than Laravel Valet. While we know about 227 links to Local by Flywheel, we've tracked only 8 mentions of Laravel Valet. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Developing WordPress plugins and themes often requires a reliable development environment. Current we have good solutions as wp-env from Autommatic, Local WP from WP Engine, Docker, XAMPP (for old ones) and so on. All this can be good suits for a development environment, specially Local WP that is probably the easiest one to get up and running and wp-env that leverages Docker as a development environment in a very... - Source: dev.to / 22 days ago
Personally if you’re on windows I like using localwp (localwp.com) from wheelfly / wpengine it lets you quickly spin up multiple sites, duplicate them, test mail, one click admin, etc. Its helped me prototype multiple websites over the last year faster than I ever did manually setting up Wordpress instances on vms or docker. Source: 5 months ago
Adding to the above recommendations, you could also try Local by Flywheel: https://localwp.com/. Source: 5 months ago
IMHO Don't worry about the Flywheel environment that's referred to in in the course, just use Local WP to provision a local hosting environment https://localwp.com/ – or MAMP or whatever you prefer – and go from there. Source: 8 months ago
I tried to set things up locally with Local, but man was that slow and the available components (like PHP) are not the same version as on the production server so I worry about compatibility. Source: 9 months ago
Laravel valet https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/valet (seems to use homebrew to select php versions and nginx for servers + ssl). Source: over 2 years ago
I'm likely explaning it terribly, the Laravel documentation can do it better - Laravel Valet Docs. Source: over 2 years ago
For building PHP sites, we use [Laravel Valet(https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/valet) (Mac only) but when I first started I used MAMP/WAMP. Laravel Valet sets you up with an Nginx environment where MAMP/WAMP will give you Apache. They both have free options and give you the ability to run a local web server. For a hosting environment (like Bluehost), you’ll work in either an LAMP or LEMP stack. This stands for Linux... Source: over 2 years ago
Are you running on Mac or windows? If you’re using Mac I would recommend using Valet and then updating the php version according to the documentation at https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/valet. If you’re using windows I think you can just update is via shell commands but I’m not quite sure, haven’t used windows in years :p. Maybe this stack overflow article can help you... Source: over 2 years ago
Once installed you will need to run your project using a php server. I use Laravel Valet. It is easy to setup and use. - Source: dev.to / over 3 years ago
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