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 (MIT)
United StatesPlatforms
- Mac
- Laravel
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 Laragon.
Alternatives list
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.
51 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.
+5
33 Mongoose alternativesMongoose is easy to use web server. It also can be used as embedded web server library to provide web interface to applications.
Laravel Homestead is an official, pre-packaged Vagrant box that provides you a wonderful development environment without requiring you to install PHP, a web server, or any other server software on your local machine.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- PHP
- MySQL Community Edition
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- memcached
- Node.JS
51 Abyss Webserver alternativesAbyss Web Server is a compact web server available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD operating systems.
+2
Nginx MariaDB Redis Php development stack for Windows, with Composer, Adminer, LetsEncrypt certificates, WinSCP, multiple PHP versions, projects and virtual servers.
+3
Faster local development for Drupal, WordPress, and beyond. Kalabox is the easiest way to develop websites and get them live. Get rid of the drudgery and have more fun!
Kalabox is now discontinued. The successor is Lando.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
+3
Open Server Panel is a powerful alternative to WAMP stacks like Xampp, Wampserver, Herd, EasyPHP, Vertrigo, and similar solutions. This application runs on the Windows operating system, supports Apache and Nginx as web servers, and provides the ability to run various versions of...
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
Fenix is a desktop web server for developers. A simple and visual static web server with collaboration features.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
+2
Ireland
EU
Poland
Russia
