Nitro Server Alternatives

Alternatives list

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   Uvicorn

    2 likes

   An ASGI web server, for Python. 🦄.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (BSD-3-Clause)

   Application type

   • Web Server

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Python

   

   Good alternative?Is Uvicorn a good alternative to Nitro Server?

    
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   Laravel Valet

    1 like

   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)

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Laravel

   

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   Gunicorn

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   Gunicorn 'Green Unicorn' is a Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX. It's a pre-fork worker model ported from Ruby's Unicorn project. The Gunicorn server is broadly compatible with various web frameworks, simply implemented, light on server resource usage, and fairly...

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Web Server

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Self-Hosted
   • Python

   

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   Lando

    5 likes

   Lando is a free, open source, cross-platform, local development environment and DevOps tool built on Docker container technology and developed by Tandem.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application type

   • Web Server

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   • United States

   

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   TinyWeb

    4 likes

   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.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Web Server

   Platforms

   • Windows

   

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   BAMP

    3 likes

   BAMP is a small macOS utility to manage your local server based on Apache + MongoDB + PHP using the Homebrew toolkit.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Platforms

   • Mac

   

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10. 

    

    Clamp

     5 likes

    Clamp is a Command Line Apache MySQL PHP for Mac OS X made for local development. It aims at being ultra simple to use and configure.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Web Server

    Origin

    • China

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • MariaDB
    • Apache HTTP Server
    • PHP
    • Homebrew

    

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    Mongoose

     18 likes

    Mongoose is easy to use web server. It also can be used as embedded web server library to provide web interface to applications.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    • Web Server

    Origin

    • Ireland
    • EU

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted

    • Ireland
    • EU

    

    

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    Laravel Herd

     2 likes

    Herd 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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    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    • Web Server

    Origin

    • United States

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac

    • United States

    

    

    

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    Abyss Webserver

     21 likes

    Abyss Web Server is a compact web server available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD operating systems.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    • Web Server

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD

    

    

    

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    Laravel Homestead

     1 like

    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

    • Web Server

    Origin

    • United States

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • PHP
    • MySQL Community Edition
    • PostgreSQL
    • Redis
    • memcached
    • Node.JS

    

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    mini_httpd

     1 like

    A small HTTP server with SSL, directory listings, virtual hosting and CGI. It is available in Debian's and Ubuntu's repositories as package "mini-httpd" and on Alpine Linux as package "mini_httpd".

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Web Server

    Origin

    • United States

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    

    Good alternative?Is mini_httpd a good alternative to Nitro Server?