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What is Laravel Homestead?
Laravel Homestead is an official, pre-packaged Vagrant "box" that provides you a wonderful development environment without requiring you to install PHP, HHVM, a web server, and any other server software on your local machine. Homestead runs on any Windows, Mac, or Linux system, and includes the Nginx web server, PHP 5.6, MySQL, Postgres, Redis, Memcached, and all of the other goodies you need to develop amazing Laravel applications.
Laravel Homestead is a tool in the Infrastructure as a Service category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Ubuntu 14.04PHP 5.6HHVMNginxMySQLPostgresNode (With Bower, Grunt, and Gulp)RedisMemcachedBeanstalkdLaravel EnvoyFabric + HipChat Extension
Laravel Homestead Pros & Cons
Pros of Laravel Homestead
- ✓Easy to setup
- ✓Native enviroment
- ✓Cool if you finally get it set up 4 Win10 by night Devs
Cons of Laravel Homestead
No cons listed yet.
Laravel Homestead Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Laravel Homestead?
HHVM (HipHop Virtual Machine)
HHVM uses a just-in-time (JIT) compilation approach to achieve superior performance while maintaining the flexibility that PHP developers are accustomed to. To date, HHVM (and its predecessor HPHPc before it) has realized over a 9x increase in web request throughput and over a 5x reduction in memory consumption for Facebook compared with the PHP 5.2 engine + APC.
Azure Virtual Machines
You can create Linux and Windows virtual machines. It gives you the flexibility of virtualization for a wide range of computing solutions—development and testing, running applications, and extending your datacenter. It’s the freedom of open-source software configured the way you need it.
GraalVM
An ecosystem and shared runtime offering performance advantages not only to JVM-based languages such as Java, Scala, Groovy, and Kotlin, but also to programming languages as JavaScript, Ruby, Python, and R. Additionally, it enables the execution of native code on the JVM via LLVM front-end.
