Laravel Homestead vs SourceTree: 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 SourceTree? A free Git GUI client for Windows and macOS. Use the full capability of Git and Mercurial in the SourceTree desktop app. Manage all your repositories, hosted or local, through SourceTree's simple interface.
Laravel Homestead and SourceTree are primarily classified as "Virtual Machine" and "Source Code Management Desktop Apps" tools respectively.
Some of the features offered by Laravel Homestead are:
- Ubuntu 14.04
- PHP 5.6
- HHVM
On the other hand, SourceTree provides the following key features:
- Full-powered DVCS
- Create, clone, commit, push, pull, merge, and more are all just a click away.
- Review your outgoing and incoming changesets, cherry-pick between branches, patch handling, rebase, stash, shelve, and much more.
"Easy to setup" is the top reason why over 18 developers like Laravel Homestead, while over 199 developers mention "Visual history and branch view" as the leading cause for choosing SourceTree.
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, SourceTree has a broader approval, being mentioned in 615 company stacks & 401 developers stacks; compared to Laravel Homestead, which is listed in 20 company stacks and 24 developer stacks.