Local Environment Setup

Note $ represents a terminal command and should not be typed out.

All commands (unless otherwise specified) should be ran from home dir:

$ cd

• Update or Install Homebrew
  • Install
  • Update
• Install PHP
• Install MySQL
• Install Composer
  • Download
  • Install Globally
  • Add to your Path
• Install Node/NPM
• Install Valet
  • Run Installer
• Serve Up Your Sites
  • Serving in a nutshell
  • Park entire directory
  • Link single directory

Update or Install Homebrew

Install

$ /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

OR

Update

$ brew update

Install PHP

$ brew install homebrew/php/php71

7.1 was latest at the time. Check for latest release or the recommended version on the valet docs.

Install MySQL

$ brew install mysql
$ brew services start mysql

You can download Sequel Pro and connect to your local MySQL server.

• Host: 127.0.0.1
• User: root

Leave everything else blank and connect.

Install Composer

Download

$ php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
$ php -r "if (hash_file('SHA384', 'composer-setup.php') === '544e09ee996cdf60ece3804abc52599c22b1f40f4323403c44d44fdfdd586475ca9813a858088ffbc1f233e9b180f061') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"
$ php composer-setup.php
$ php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"

Install Globally

$ mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

Add to your Path

$ sudo vim /etc/paths

• You can use any method of editing the file
• Add /users/{your-folder-name}/.composer/vendor/bin at the bottom of the file and save
• Quit/restart terminal

Install Node/NPM

$ brew install node
$ node -v
$ npm -v

Commands 2 and 3 should return the versions of Node and NPM if install properly.

Valet Installer

$ composer global require laravel/valet

Laravel Installer

$ composer global require laravel/installer

Install Valet

$ valet install

This will most likely prompt for the root password

Serve up your sites

Read the valet documentation on serving sites.

If you already have a pretty good size projects folder I would recommend linking your project individually OR creating a separate directory inside your projects folder specifically for valet sites.

Serving in a nutshell

Park entire directory

$ cd ~/projects
$ mkdir valet && cd valet
$ valet park

Every directory in the newly created valet directory will be automatically accessible at directory-name.dev.

Link single directory

$ cd ~/projects
$ mkdir app-name && cd app-name
$ valet link app-name

The site will now be available at app-name.dev.

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