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Moving Away from AMPPS for Local Dev

Davina Leong on February 17, 2019

Ever since I started web development, I've been using WAMP and later on AMPPS, which is just WAMP/MAMP with a better UI. But I feel I've been takin...
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C.S. Rhymes

Have you considered Laravel Homestead? It uses vagrant instead of docker and provides a whole virtual machine with multiple versions of PHP to choose from. Super easy to get started with. laravel.com/docs/5.7/homestead

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Mihail Malo

Have you used a Mac before this?
Just sounded like a weird jump to make there :v

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Matthew Daly • Edited

I use Lando these days. It's Docker-based, but is pretty easy to use, and makes it very straightforward to set up a LAMP stack.

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Davina Leong

Hmm... had a glance at it and looks promising... will take a look at it when I have the time... hehe...

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Valentin Silvestre

I recommend you not to write your own Docker script but use boilerplate and understand what and why they do things.