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local PHP development for Mac

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I got tired of managing dev environments, so I built ServBay▲30
Hey HN, For years, my local development setup has been a fragile mess of tools that never quite played nicely together. On my mac, it was a constant battle with Homebrew services starting (or not starting) on boot, conflicting PHP and Node versions managed by `asdf` or `nvm`, and a collection of `docker-compose.yml` files that I'd copy-paste and tweak for every single project. The cognitive load was just too high. Setting up SSL was another chore involving `mkcert`. Sharing a quick demo with a colleague meant firing up ngrok. And if I wanted to run two projects that needed different versions…
Oct 2025 · servbay.com
2EW
Easy Webserver for Node.js, Python, PHP, with Free SSL▲123
2017 · github.com
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Laravel Forge▲125
Instant PHP platforms on Linode, DigitalOcean, and more
2014
4BA
Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning▲430
This is ymawky, a static file web server for MacOS written entirely in ARM64 assembly. It supports GET, PUT, DELETE, HEAD, and OPTIONS requests, and supports Range: bytes=X-Y headers (which allows scrubbing for video streaming). It decodes percent-encoded URLs, strictly enforces docroot, serves custom error pages for any HTTP error response, supports directory listing, and has (some) mitigations against slowloris-like attacks. I’ve also written a more detailed writeup here: https://imtomt.github.io/ymawky/
May 2026 · github.com
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Requestly▲148
Debug & Modify HTTP(s) Requests - loved by 125K+ web devs
2019
6HC
HTML5 clone of OS X AirDrop – Easy P2P file transfers in a browser▲165
2014 · sharedrop.io
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Peerdium▲155
World's first decentralised P2P publishing platform
2018
8MP
MacProxy Plus – Surf the Modern Web on Vintage Computers▲84
I created an enhanced fork of the popular MacProxy project called MacProxy Plus, which makes it possible to browse the modern web on vintage hardware. You run MPP on a machine on your local network and configure the Mac (or other vintage computer) to use it as a proxy server. MPP converts HTTPS to HTTP, strips out CSS, JavaScript, and other tags the Mac's browser doesn't recognize, then serves super-simplified HTML that actually loads pretty fast on the nearly 40 year old machine. Custom handling is enabled by "extensions" (individual python scripts) which intercept requests for given…
2024 · github.com
9EO
elegant open-source pastebin server (node.js & redis)▲131
2011 · hastebin.com
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Cashew▲90
A simple Github issues macOS client
2016
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Decoy▲99
Local server mocks in macOS, all in a lightweight native app
Mar 2026
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Local▲182
A beautiful, free app for developing WordPress sites locally
2020
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Multi▲95
Create a custom macOS app from a group of websites
2020
14SD
Simple decentralized web hosting on Peergos▲29
2021 · peergos.org
15DP
DirtyShare, Pure JavaScript P2P File Sharing (in Node.js + Socket.io)▲75
2012 · gun.io
16PT
Peer-to-Peer data transfer tool based on libp2p▲129
2021 · github.com
17PT
Peer-to-peer for shell scripts▲14
2017 · github.com
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Requestly 2.0▲112
Intercept & modify HTTP requests
2021
19PJ
Pure JavaScript P2P file sharing in the browser▲59
2013 · whatareyoudownloading.com
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Hashbase▲71
Hosting for the peer-to-peer Web.
2018
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reep.io▲84
Secure peer-to-peer file transfers between browsers
2014
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Sendfiles.dev – quick, secure P2P file transfer using WebRTC▲43
2021 · sendfiles.dev
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Localdots – HTTPS domains for localhost with autoconfig and hot reload▲75
2019 · github.com
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Instantly create a secure URL to your Mac▲67
2019 · emporter.app

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