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Valet+ is a development environment for macOS. No Vagrant, no Docker, no /etc/hosts file.

Valet vs. Valet+

Valet+ is a third-party fork of Laravel Valet. Valet+ adds functionality to Valet with a goal of making things even simpler and faster. We are very grateful to the Laravel team for providing the base that we built Valet+ on. Since this is a fork we'll pull in changes from the original Valet regularly as they are released.

Some of the documentation in this readme was taken from the Valet website and provided here for convenience, so that you can read this document and know about all features provided. The original documentation can be found here: https://laravel.com/docs/valet.

Since Valet+ is intended to replace Valet, it still uses the same valet command-line name. Any changes in its interface are documented below.

Why Valet/Valet+?

Valet+ configures your Mac to always run Nginx in the background when your machine starts. Then, using DnsMasq, Valet+ proxies all requests on the *.test domain to point to sites installed on your local machine.

In other words, a blazing fast development environment. Valet+ provides a great alternative if you want flexible basics or prefer extreme speed.

Differences from Valet

Here are a few key differences compared to the original Valet:

• PHP version switch
• Xdebug (on/off mode)
• PHP extensions (mcrypt, intl, opcache)
• Optimized PHP configuration using opcache
• MySQL (with optimized configuration)
• Redis
• Elasticsearch (optional)
• Many more features outlined below...

Valet Documentation

Documentation for Valet can be found on the Laravel website.