Laravel Valet

Laravel Valet is a development environment. A development environment is a collection of procedures and tools for developing, testing, debugging applications. Valet is fast and it is popular among developers. It can be run without a web server software. It supports Lumen, Drupal, CakePHP, Magento and some other frameworks. Valet has a faster installation speed compared to others. It does support systems with minimal RAM because it only used 7MB. Let’s see how to install it in Windows OS. Make sure there are no programs like Apache or Nginx in your local server’s port 80. Then open your terminal with  administrator permissions. Check if you have the latest version of PHP in your system. Using composer install valet globally in your system.

composer global require cretueusebiu/valet-windows

To launch valet automatically, type the following command and run it.

Valet install

There is a park command and link command to help you serve your Laravel sites after installing Valet. 

$ valet park

Park command registers your working directory as a path that Valet should search for sites. 

When the link command is executed as follows Valet will create a symbolic link in ~/.valet/Sites which points to the current directory. 

$ cd ~/Projects/my-blog/

$ valet link awesome-blog

After running the command you will be able to access the site in your browser at https://awesome-blog.dev.