Laravel Valet

Laravel Valet

• Introduction
  • Valet Or Homestead
• Installation
  • Upgrading
• Serving Sites
  • The "Park" Command
  • The "Link" Command
  • Securing Sites With TLS
• Sharing Sites
• Viewing Logs
• Custom Valet Drivers
• Other Valet Commands

Introduction

Valet is a Laravel development environment for Mac minimalists. No Vagrant, No Apache, No Nginx, No /etc/hosts file. You can even share your sites publicly using local tunnels. Yeah, we like it too.

Laravel Valet configures your Mac to always run Caddy in the background when your machine starts. Then, using DnsMasq, Valet proxies all requests on the *.dev domain to point to sites installed on your local machine.

In other words, a blazing fast Laravel development environment that uses roughly 7 MB of RAM. Valet isn't a complete replacement for Vagrant or Homestead, but provides a great alternative if you want flexible basics, prefer extreme speed, or are working on a machine with a limited amount of RAM.

Out of the box, Valet support includes, but is not limited to:

However, you may extend Valet with your own custom drivers.