Product Information
What is Laravel herd?
Herd is a lightning-fast native Laravel and PHP development environment for macOS. It comes with everything you need to start developing with Laravel, including PHP, nginx, dnsmasq, and Node.js.
You can integrate Herd with Laravel Forge and manage everything from setting up local sites to deploying them to remote servers—all with a single tool.
Herd Pro enhances your development environment with services like database and cache management. It also includes testing and debugging tools tailored specifically for Laravel, which you'll appreciate when working on web applications daily.
Once installed, Herd serves all sites on your machine via *.test domains—similar to Laravel Valet but without dependencies or the need for Homebrew. It ships with its own precompiled binaries, making installation and usage incredibly fast.
How to use Laravel herd?
Laravel Herd is a fast, native Laravel and PHP development environment specifically designed for macOS. It offers an all-in-one toolkit that includes PHP, nginx, dnsmasq, and Node.js, enabling developers to quickly set up Laravel projects.
Core Functions of Laravel herd
Ad-free, offline available, Xdebug, Nginx, Laravel-based, stays in menu bar
Usage Scenarios of Laravel herd
- Quickly Setting Up a Local Laravel Development Environment
- Deploying Local Sites to Remote Servers (Integrated with Laravel Forge)
- Daily Web Application Development (Using Its Testing and Debugging Tools)
- Accessing and Managing Multiple Development Sites via *.test Domains on Local Machines
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