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Laravel Homestead

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Followers16.6K

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Laravel Homestead vs Notepad++: What are the differences?

What is Laravel Homestead? The official Laravel local development environment (Vagrant box). 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.

What is Notepad++? Free source code editor and Notepad replacement. Notepad++ is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License.

Laravel Homestead belongs to "Virtual Machine" category of the tech stack, while Notepad++ can be primarily classified under "Text Editor".

Some of the features offered by Laravel Homestead are:

Ubuntu 14.04
PHP 5.6
HHVM

On the other hand, Notepad++ provides the following key features:

Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding
User Defined Syntax Highlighting and Folding: screenshot 1, screenshot 2, screenshot 3 and screenshot 4
PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expression) Search/Replace

"Easy to setup" is the top reason why over 18 developers like Laravel Homestead, while over 94 developers mention "Syntax for all languages that i use" as the leading cause for choosing Notepad++.

Laravel Homestead is an open source tool with 3.11K GitHub stars and 1.32K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Laravel Homestead's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Notepad++ has a broader approval, being mentioned in 182 company stacks & 483 developers stacks; compared to Laravel Homestead, which is listed in 20 company stacks and 24 developer stacks.

Decisions about Laravel Homestead and Notepad++

Andrey Ginger

Managing Partner at WhiteLabelDevelopers · May 18, 2020 | 3 upvotes · 516.8K views

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Since communication with Github is not necessary, the Atom is less convenient in working with text and code. Sublim's support and understanding of projects is best for us. Notepad for us is a completely outdated solution with an unacceptable interface. We use a good theme for Sublim ayu-dark

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Pros of Laravel Homestead

Pros of Notepad++

19
Easy to setup
13
Native enviroment
1
Cool if you finally get it set up 4 Win10 by night Devs

104
Syntax for all languages that i use
60
Tabbed ui
56
Great code editor
54
Fast and lightweight
38
Plugins
28
Nice GUI
26
Regex & Special Character Search & Replace
16
Fast startup
9
Application is free, and plugins are too
9
Themes
6
Free
4
Very Lightweight
3
100% Free
2
Column selection
1
Awesome autocomplete
1
Easy edit on FTP servers (NppFTP)
1
Cos it's seck
1
Nice gui. are you kidding me?
1
Open Sourced

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Cons of Laravel Homestead

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No default plugin manager
2
Can't install more advanced packets

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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.

What is Notepad++?

Notepad++ is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License.

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What are some alternatives to Laravel Homestead and Notepad++?

Docker

The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere

Laravel

It is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. It attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, and caching.

XAMPP

It consists mainly of the Apache HTTP Server, MariaDB database, and interpreters for scripts written in the PHP and Perl programming languages.

PuPHPet

It is a web application that allows you to easily and quickly generate custom Vagrant and Puppet controlled virtual machines.

Git

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

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