What is your local development environment?

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Following the new local development environment cookbook recipe, I am wondering who uses what.

  • MAMP or MAMP Pro
  • XAMPP
  • WAMP
  • PHP’s built-in server
  • Laravel Valet
  • Valet+
  • Vagrant + Virtual Box
  • Laravel Homestead
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Laragon!

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@moeli Looks good, Windows only it seems? Might add it to the recipe.

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Yes, I think it is only available for windows at the moment (and no plans to bring it to other OS)

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using laragon for about 2 years or so.

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I use a local environment based on this tutorial. It’s written for Mac, but a few substitutions will let you spin it up in Linux.

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Linux + Caddy server + PHP-FPM

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I’m wondering nobody mentioned …

Docker + PHP-FPM & NGINX directly

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My development environment you can find at HowTo: Start Kirby development on a PC, only the versions are now newer like a Win10 64bit laptop and the XAMPP version 64bit.

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any chance you can share your docker file with us?

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I use docker. Pretty much just copy/paste this docker-compose file into every new project which gives me a PHP/Apache server and an SMTP server for testing emails in a single command: docker-compose up

version: "3"

services:
  server:
    image: webdevops/php-apache-dev:7.2
    volumes:
      - ./site:/app
    ports:
      - "8080:80"

  maildev:
    image: djfarrelly/maildev

    ports:
      - "1080:80"
      - "1025:25"

I usually also run browser-sync.

browser-sync start --proxy localhost:8080 --files site/**/*

I’ve found this is a nice balance between simplicity and power. I don’t usually deal with grunt/gulp/webpack/sass/etc. Just a single hand written CSS file. Anything up to around 1,500 lines is pretty easy to maintain and sidesteps tons of unneeded complexity.

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Also, I deploy with Git. Just run a “git init --bare” on the server and add this as a post-receive hook in the hooks directory:

#!/bin/sh

git --work-tree=/home/public checkout -f

Add a remote to my local git repo

git remote add webhost ssh://user:password@remotehost.com/home/private/website_repo

Then deployment is a simple

git push webhost master

Minimum configuration and complexity, maximum flexibility. :slight_smile:

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@Jayshua Thanks for sharing your configuration.

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It is the Kirby-Docker-Starter by @S1SYPHOS, you will find it in the Forum als well as on Github!

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I have a (local) docker image on linux, whose run command I have aliased to apache.
This allows me to go into any directory and type “apache” in the console to start an ephemeral container running php on apache, bound on 0.0.0.0:80 with the current directory as webroot.

the image looks like this

FROM php:7-apache

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
    libfreetype6-dev \
    libjpeg62-turbo-dev \
    libpng-dev \
    libzip-dev

RUN docker-php-ext-configure gd --with-freetype-dir=/usr/include/ --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/include/ \
    && docker-php-ext-install gd iconv exif mbstring zip pdo_mysql gettext

RUN export CFLAGS="$PHP_CFLAGS" CPPFLAGS="$PHP_CPPFLAGS" LDFLAGS="$PHP_LDFLAGS" \
    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
    libmagickwand-dev \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* \
    && pecl install imagick-3.4.3 \
    && docker-php-ext-enable imagick

RUN a2enmod rewrite
RUN usermod -u 2000 www-data

(my user id is 2000)

the alias looks like this:

alias apache='docker run --rm -p 80:80 -v "$PWD:/var/www/html" myimagename'
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+1 for docker-compose + browsersync!

I also still use gulp to minify images, run postcss plugins, fingerprint assets…

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I know the kirby core team moved (far far) away from the built in php server, but for the sake of speed and ease of use, I only use the builtin php server for kirby projects.
(Unless a very specific server configuration is required, in which case I use VMs).

The switching of php versions is handled via brew-php-switcher brew package.

To speed things up, I made a simple (hackable) script that allows me to install kirby, uninstall, compile js and css and watch changes easily with a simple level of debug. It’s as simple as:

make install
make dev
...
make stop

Needs git, global node and sass.
Works on OsX, should work on linux — windows via WSL ?
Here it is: https://github.com/tasinttttttt/bootstrap-kirby

Curious to know if anyone else would use this :smiley:

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Is there any chance of adding EasyPHP to document? @texnixe

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Thats pretty neat but very opinionated. You can do most of that stuff NPM scripts anyway, without using make.

I find Valet a good alternative to having such a lightweight server. You get Mix thrown in for free so that takes care of SASS, and Javascript compilation.

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I’ve wanted to switch my local dev environment on windows 10 and Windows Subsystem for Linux for a while. I found this handy guide that explains almost everything:

And I now have a Valet environment on Windows 10 and Kirby is running perfectly. I highly recommend it!

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