Localhost Setup Recommendation

[NooseLadder]

Hi,

 

I've been out of the game for a number of years (6/7). I have a few projects lined up. I used to use XAMPP on my Windows PC back then. I have a Windows 8.1 laptop atm. Is XAMPP still ok or can you recommend anything better? I used to upload files to server using FileZilla. Thanks.

[rick]

Hi @NooseLadder, and welcome back!

There are a number of xampp related posts on the forum that will help get everything set up and running. You can find them searching google like this:

site:processwire.com/talk xampp

Filezilla would be used to copy (sftp) files to a production server. You might use whatever IDE you prefer to access your localhost document root until such time as you want to go live.

Hope this helps.

[horst]

@NooseLadder ... or you take the easy way and get you a full copy of Laragon! It has everything you may need or not. Including One-Click-SSL-Certificates in your local dev environment to use and test full https protocol. And much more. ?

see what others mean:  site:processwire.com/talk laragon

[pwired]

I tried them all => go for Laragon => fast => easy config easy ui
https://laragon.org/why-laragon/

[zoeck]

+1 for Laragon ? 

[rick]

Even though I don't run windows laragon looks amazing.

[dragan]

I'd recommend Laragon too. And WinSCP instead of Filezilla.

If you have the budget, get a good IDE as well - my recommendation would be PHPStorm by JetBrains. In order to profit from IDE hints, you can use the pages()->find syntax instead of $pages->find (just an example - I don't have time right now to search for the docs or blog/forum posts explaining this - here it's called "API variables as a function").

You can get rid of an FTP client altogether, if you configure PHPStorm to automatically upload files upon save, which is a big time-saver.

These days, I'm sure most (all?) of JetBrains' functionality can be had with VSCode as well, but I'm not sure if there are still significant differences (probably means installing a few plugins).

[clsource]

Althought Laragon is a great choice.
You can also use Docker if you want ?

Here I made a simple config for PW

https://github.com/joyofpw/docker

?

[NooseLadder]

@rick  @horst @pwired @zoeck @dragan @clsource

Thanks for you replies. I'll take a look at your suggestions shortly.

 

[rookie]

@NooseLadder

you could delete windows and install linux. ?

[NooseLadder]

@rookie I wish you hadn't said that. I've been using Windows since 1987. Probably need a blood transfusion to get it out of my system. 

[NooseLadder]

I set up Laragon and successfully installed Processwire which is working great. I really like Laragon so far. Also installed WinSCP. I'm not doing enough work to warrant PHPStorm atm, but it looks good. Thanks for your suggestions.

[bernhard]

I'd recommend VSCode + Intelephense + PW Snippets

 

[rick]

You may also want to take a look at vscodium. It's the same as vscode but without microsoft's tracking. It is free also.

[NooseLadder]

Can anyone help with remote access to Laragon from another device? I am able to share the link from Laragon which works but each time you run a new session Laragon generates a different url example: 7676f06221b1.ngrok.io

I'm trying to find a way so that I don't have to put the new url into my phone every time.

[dotnetic]

@NooseLadder That would require a paid subscription of ngrok or a DynDNS setup,
or you could setup a local DNS server which resolves hostnames in your local network.
You could even add the static IP address of your local webservers computer to the .hosts file of your other devices (depending on the device it's possible or not).
I would recommend to open a new thread for this or search on various sites like servervault.

If you would like to test your website(s) on different devices, I would also recommend BrowserStack which I also use.

[Mikie]

Also check out http://devilbox.org/ its cross platform, mature and actively developed. 

[patricktsg]

Laravel Valet for very simple lightweight localhost stuff. Very easy to install, once you park a folder you can serve all sites from it via .test domains.

NGROK if you want to then create a tunnel that you can share a site preview with over the internet.

[gebeer]

Let me throw https://laradock.io/ into the mix. I've been using it for the last 3 years or so. Absolutely great.

[bernhard]

Thx, this looks nice ? 

https://laradock.io/getting-started/#B

That sounds like a lot of steps for adding a new project?!

[gebeer]

4 hours ago, bernhard said:

Thx, this looks nice ? 

https://laradock.io/getting-started/#B

That sounds like a lot of steps for adding a new project?!

Actually, I set this up once for multiple projects. Now every time I add a new project it takes me 5 minutes which is ok for me ?