The Minimal Dev (June 2017)

No offense, but most local development environments are overkill. Vagrant is great if you want to match your site’s production environment, but it can often be fussy, and slow to spin up. Docker runs faster and is more lightweight, but it can be hard to get up and running if you’re not intimately familiar with how containers work.

Laravel’s Valet project is a simplified, local, PHP development environment for minimalists that uses lightweight packages—not virtual machines— to speed up development time.

In this session I will demonstrate how to install Valet, show off some of the features that make it so useful for WordPress developers, and share some power user tricks that I’ve learned while using it.

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1. The Minimal Dev
   WordCamp OC 2017
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2. So...
   dev environments
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3. Mamas, don't let your
   babies grow up to be
   cowboy coders
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4. Dev environments
   • Vagrant
   • Docker
   • DesktopServer
   • Local
   • Chassis
   • MAMP
   • WAMP
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6. Valet
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7. Why Valet?
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8. Installing Valet
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10. Installing Valet (Homebrew)
    # Install Xcode Command Line Tools
    ! xcode-select --install
    # Install Homebrew
    ! /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
    # Update Homebrew Package Index
    ! brew update
    # Confirm Homebrew is Installed Correctly
    ! brew doctor
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11. Installing Valet (PHP 7)
    # Install PHP 7.0
    ! brew tap homebrew/php
    ! brew install php70
    # Install Xdebug (optional)
    ! brew install php70-xdebug
    # Confirm PHP is Installed Correctly
    ! php -v
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12. Installing Valet (MySQL)
    # Install MySQL
    ! brew install mariadb
    # Launch MySQL at Login
    ! brew services start mariadb
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13. Installing Valet (Composer)
    # Install Composer
    ! brew install composer
    # Confirm Composer is Installed Correctly
    ! composer -V
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14. Installing Valet (Valet)
    # Install Valet (Part 1)
    ! composer global require laravel/valet
    # Install Valet (Part 2)
    ! valet install
    # Create a Directory for Valet Sites
    ! mkdir ~/sites/valet/
    ! cd ~/sites/valet/
    ! valet park
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15. Installing WP-CLI
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16. Install WP-CLI
    ! curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar
    ! php wp-cli.phar --info
    ! chmod +x wp-cli.phar
    ! sudo mv wp-cli.phar /usr/local/bin/wp
    From wp-cli.org
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17. Valet + WP-CLI
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18. WP-CLI Valet commands
    ! wp package install aaemnnosttv/wp-cli-valet-command
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19. Creating sites
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20. Create a site
    ! wp valet new modok --admin_user=modok --admin_password=advanced-idea-mechanics
    Don't go anywhere, this should only take a second...
    Success: modok ready! https://modok.dev
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22. Destroy a site
    ! wp valet destroy modok --yes
    Success: modok was destroyed.
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23. Preserving workflows
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24. Supported workflows
    • Multisite
    • WordPlate
    • Skeleton
    • Bedrock
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25. Showing off
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26. Showing off
    ! cd ~/sites/valet/modok
    ! valet share
    ngrok by @inconshreveable (Ctrl+C to quit)
    Session Status online
    Version 2.2.4
    Region United States (us)
    Web Interface http://127.0.0.1:4040
    Forwarding http://bf40fa0e.ngrok.io -> modok.dev:443
    Forwarding https://bf40fa0e.ngrok.io -> modok.dev:443
    Connections ttl opn rt1 rt5 p50 p90
    0 0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
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27. Experimentation
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28. Installing Elasticsearch
    ! brew install elasticsearch
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30. Maintaining Elasticsearch
    ! brew pin elasticsearch
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32. Questions?
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