The Minimal Dev (September 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.

Transcript

1. The Minimal Dev
2. What are local development environments?
3. Who should use a development environment?
4. A brief history of PHP development environments
5. MAMP and/or WAMP
6. Vagrant
7. Docker
8. Local
9. Valet
10. Valet is bae
11. → wp valet new tacos "#admin_user=boogah "#admin_password=queso-pastor-harina
12. Installing Valet https:!"goo.gl/VtBKPq
13. Fun with Valet
14. Share Your Site → cd ~/sites/valet/tacos → valet share
15. Play with Elasticsearch → brew tap caskroom/cask → brew cask install java → brew install elasticsearch → brew pin elasticsearch http:!"localhost:9200
16. Play with Redis → brew install redis → brew services start redis → brew install php70-redis tcp:!"localhost:6379
17. If all of this command line stuff freaks you out...
18. But what about...
19. Questions?