Local or cloud development environment for web developers. Powered by Docker. But without the complexities of bespoke configuration.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
United StatesPlatforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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Nitro Server Alternatives
Nitro Server is described as 'Create web servers with everything you need and deploy them wherever you prefer' and is a Web Server in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Nitro Server for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Self-Hosted and BSD apps. The best Nitro Server alternative is XAMPP, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Nitro Server are nginx, Apache HTTP Server, Caddy and Ferron.
Alternatives list
17 Local by Flywheel alternativesProvides a simple, local development environment with a friendly GUI. Uses Docker under the hood, similar to Vagrant but less tech experience needed.
47 lighttpd alternativeslighttpd (pronounced "lighty") is a web server designed to be secure, fast, standards-compliant, and flexible while being optimized for speed-critical environments.
22 Serva 32/64 alternativesServa is an Automated PXE Server Solution Accelerator based on an all-in-one portable multi-server engine including BINL(RIS/WDS), HTTP, FTP, TFTP, DHCP, proxyDHCP, DNS, SNTP and SYSLOG protocols.
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40 EasyPHP alternativesSetup at a glance a pre-configured Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP environment on your system or on a USB key and develop or present locally your projects.
UwAmp is a Wamp Server with Apache MySQL PHP and SQLite, and it comes with an very smart interface that offers various information, configuration and commands for the server. It can handle multiple php versions and monitor cpu usage. Also it is able to run in U3 mode.
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Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Docker
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49 Laragon alternativesA lightweight, fast and convenient modern LAMP Server with Redis and Memcached, extremely high performance. Laragon'll turn your computer into a powerful server in a minute so you can host Wordpress, Joomla, Magento, Drupal, and Prestashop quickly and effortlessly.
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Laragon is the most popular commercial alternative to Nitro Server.
- Laragon is Paid and Open Source
CivetWeb is an easy to use, powerful, C/C++ embeddable web server with optional CGI, SSL and Lua support.
50 Laravel Herd alternativesHerd is a blazing fast, native Laravel and PHP development environment for macOS. It provides everything that you need to get started with Laravel development. It ships with PHP, nginx, dnsmasq and Node.js.
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TinyWeb is an extremely small (< 100K), simple (no configuration other than through the command line) and lightweight (consumes a minimum of system resources) Web server for Windows. It supports CGI.
Valet is a Laravel development environment for Mac minimalists. No Vagrant, no hosts file. You can even share your sites publicly using local tunnels. Yeah, we like it too.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Laravel
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