Laravel Herd - PHP Development Environment for Mac

[@adammenczykowski]

Mega tool for beginners and people who just want something simple that works!

[@ThatAdel]

Damn !! this is my first time with macOS and that's smoothe af.

[@stylesg7818]

I'm impressed! Hassle free php installation.

[@loicmakassoeti3209]

Thank you for introducing us to this new tool, great work 😊

[@JanKowalski-dn9si]

Exactly what I was looking for!

[@ahsanranga8820]

So clear and clean video, thank you

[@vasiovasio]

Very Useful Overview! Thank you, Andre!

[@jinsko1]

Superb job Andre!

[@Carlitoshhr]

Useful video, full environment to start coding

[@azizullahsaeidi6746]

It was really awesome, you saved my time. Thank you so much.

[@devarni]

Seems easy work for all kind of PHP stuff also wordpress.. would you prefer it over Docker?

[@millennialsdev]

I use Laravel Valet, I think that it's very easy (I use that also for wordpress, magento ecc) but I don't use dbengine, i think that it's very heavy. This is the first time that hi heat "Laravel herd" thanks Andre Laravel + Vue is the right way, I love this stack (also nuxt, sails and jamstack for mevn application)

[@latlov]

A MySQL Docker container also works with Laravel Valet.

[@jakupovicsamir6454]

Sehr gut gemacht!

[@ags2099]

epic gamer stuff right here

[@BalduinoFernando]

Amazing tool. I just thing that they should ship in Node as well in order to compile vite/mix frontend assets

[@drehimself]

That would be amazing but probably unlikely... maybe someone else will create a separate tool that does the same thing but for Node/JS??

[@turdakhov]

Thank you! Great tutorial!

[@isabelphillips451]

Interesting ... the SSL secure option with warning, i dont get such warning using valet, whats the benefit of migrating to this if I'd have to plead with the browser to mimick a secured site

[@WeiHaoYeong]

i follow your steps setting up herd and create a project and index.php file my herd is running and all are green but when i try project.test in my browser, I receive "Site can't be reached".. Any advice?

[@xYundy]

In the future will Herd have a node.js for Laravel Mix or another tools? :)

[@drehimself]

I think it'll just focus on the PHP side of things.

[@scuraluis]

I had to install node separately because I was getting an issue that "Vite manifest not found" when installing only Herd and creating a laravel app. Breeze wasn't working properly. Would've been cool to specify that on at the beggining

[@KamrulHasan-zq2wc]

Herd for linux?

[@max_postmind]

It's just replacement for docker sail up?

[@AaronTweeton]

Thanks for sharing this!

[@snkeze9]

Would it be possible to configure Nginx for subdomains in laravel herd ?

[@scotthallett]

Nice! Do u know if you get MySQL command line tools with the DB tool?

[@drehimself]

Hmm, you can have a custom config as shown here: github.com/TablePlus/DBngin/issues/7

[@trippthree8842]

Thank you for this!!!!

[@manojpadhiyar5387]

Hi it's cool but i have custom code of php and add in herd directory when i run it shows 404 can you help me with the same?

[@quochuyfpolyhn7467]

I got this error when running doman 502 Bad Gateway: nginx/1.22.0 How to fix it? Thanks

[@latlov]

Does Laravel Herd support https, just like in Valet? Does Laravel Herd include PHP modules, such as imageMagick and wkhtmltopdf?

[@drehimself]

Yes, it supports HTTPS just like in Valet. It does include imagick but not wkhtmltopdf. You cannot add any additional PHP extensions so you're better off sticking with Valet.

[@wmafendi]

so awesome explaination

[@scorpioshanky3492]

Mongodb support?

[@anytech2435]

great work

[@wraithshield]

Just wondering what the security implications are of running this on my mac - root access for an app that is downloading web depenedencies etc worries me.

[@drehimself]

Valid concern. It's made by Beyond Code who have been making great Laravel products for many years. I personally trust them but that's a decision you have to make when installing any software.

[@ronaldngarombo1026]

Does is it mean if I install Herd I need to move all my laravel projects? There are some projects that am currently working on and wouldn't want to shift them.

[@drehimself]

If you're perfectly happy with your current dev environment, I would just stick to that.

[@ronaldngarombo1026]

@@drehimself I need to run some older laravel projects that require php version 7.1. Can Laravel Herd be used along side my current setup(installed php using brew) so that I can switch back and forth from my current projects to the older laravel projects?

[@drehimself]

@@ronaldngarombo1026 The oldest version of PHP Herd supports is 7.4. In your case, I would probably stick with Valet to switch between PHP versions since Valet supports any version of PHP you have installed with brew.

[@xYundy]

Can I use it also for Symfony or other PHP projects?

[@drehimself]

Yeah works with most popular PHP projects. There's no list on the Herd site, but should support the same projects as Valet: laravel.com/docs/10.x/valet#introduction

[@pfuhad3760]

Thank you so much

[@shubhamsahuSD]

Similar for windows?

[@bashiruibrahim8443]

Thank you Sir

[@TorreInformativa]

How can I configure Herd so that my Laravel project can connect to a SQL server database?

[@drehimself]

Herd doesn't come with a database. You need to install additional software like DBngin to have a local database. Shown at around 8:00 in the video.

[@TorreInformativa]

@@drehimself Sorry I don't think I explained myself correctly, I have a sql server database on a windows server, and I'm trying to get my laravel project to connect to that sqlServer, on windows it's easier to configure laravel, but on mac I still don't know

[@David-po3li]

@@TorreInformativa hi did you find already how to connect to SQL ? having the same issue here. hehe

[@MirzamMuhammad]

thank you

[@scott_itall8638]

I get the Herd Undefined Variable $handle.

[@vascocarreira89]

How do you enable/disable php extensions?

[@drehimself]

You actually cannot do this. It comes with a set of extensions and you cannot add any more (see homepage for extensions). I would stick to Valet if you wanted this option.

[@OstapBrehin]

Great tool, but are there any plans to make it open-source?

[@drehimself]

I'm not sure if it will be open-sourced.

[@crushfire2004]

Is it possible to use nginx on different port? And enable/disable ssl

[@drehimself]

Hmm, I'm not sure if you can specify a port for NGINX. Yes, you can enable/disable SSL on a per-site basis.

[@Jesus-mu4ix]

❤

[@boopfer387]

awesome

[@Omega_Hopkin]

Looks nice, but MySQL is a paid service, right?

[@csandreas1]

Just use docker lol

[@lorettelisa753]

"Promo SM" 😜

[@codernerd7076]

This is a huge issue with Laravel it's so centered on MAC users that... can't even afford a Mac as new php dev...

[@drehimself]

I do agree with you that the tooling is better on Mac OS. If I were on Windows, I would probably use Laravel Sail with Docker.

[@blessdarah1256]

On windows you have Mamp, Mamp Pro, Xampp and any other thing that supports PHP. So the setup there is still very good.

[@CodeWithKuyaJoe]

Try out Laragon 😊

[@codernerd7076]

@@CodeWithKuyaJoe looks like an dead project

[@kritzio]

Oh!! thx brother. @AndreMadarang I just want to escape from XAMPP and I need tools that are easy to work with.