Larabox

What it does

Larabox is a modern local development environment for Windows. Native performance, no Docker/WSL complexity, and pre-bundled runtimes including PHP, nginx, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, Mailpit and Meilisearch. Delta updates to binaries without App updates, take backups and manage your development and testing cycle easily.

Larabox is a modern local development environment for Windows. Streamlined experience with pre-bundled runtimes for native development.

Escape the complexity of traditional setups. Larabox provides isolated, pre-bundled native binaries for Nginx, PHP, MariaDB, Node.js and more for a streamlined experience and live in seconds. Skip the complex virtualized setups. Larabox provides isolated native binaries for Nginx, PHP, MariaDB, Node.js, and more for a streamlined Windows experience and live in seconds. Native terminal with pre-configured PATH. Run php, mysql, and composer globally. Runs isolated Windows binaries natively. No virtualization complexity. Just start and code. Drop a folder in www/ and it is instantly live at .test domains. One-click trusted certificates via mkcert. Full HTTPS support in seconds. Side-by-side…from larabox.org

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