Introduction

Valet+ is a development environment for macOS. No Vagrant, no Docker, no /etc/hosts file. This project uses laravel/valet as a dependency.

Installation

⚠️ Valet+ requires macOS and Homebrew. Before installation, you should make sure that no other programs such as Apache or Nginx are binding to your local machine's port 80.

⚠️ Valet+ requires Composer to be installed.

To get started, you first need to ensure that Homebrew is up-to-date using the update command:

brew update

Next, you should use Homebrew to install PHP 8.1 (using shivammathur/php):

brew tap shivammathur/php
brew install shivammathur/php/php@8.1
brew link php@8.1 --force
brew services restart php@8.1

Install Valet+ 3.x-dev with composer:

composer global require weprovide/valet-plus:3.x-dev

Finally, you may execute the Valet+ install command. This will configure and install Valet+, Nginx, DnsMasq and other services. In addition, use --help to see all installation options.

valet-plus install

The daemons Valet+ depends on will be configured to launch when your system starts. Once Valet+ is installed, try pinging any *.test domain on your terminal using a command such as ping foobar.test. If Valet+ is installed correctly you should see this domain responding on 127.0.0.1.

Valet+ features

Here are a few key differences compared to the original Valet:

• Nginx config optimization
• PHP extensions (mcrypt, intl, opcache, yaml, apcu, ds, imagick)
• MySQL (mysql@5.7, mysql@8.0, mysql@8.1, mariadb)
  • DB commands (list, create, drop, reset, (re)import, export, open)
• Mailhog (on/off mode)
• Varnish (on/off mode)
• Redis (on/off mode)
• Rabbitmq (on/off mode)
• Xdebug (on/off mode)
• Memcache (on/off mode)
• Elasticsearch v6, v7, v8 (on/off mode) using Docker
• Opensearch v2 (on/off mode) using Docker
• Ioncube
• Rewrite/unrewrite public domain to local environment
• DevTools
• Binaries (magerun, magerun2, drush, wp-cli, shopware-cli)

Changes vs Valet+ 2

• Use command valet-plus instead of valet.
• Rename .env.valet to .valet-env.php.
• Use command valet-plus elasticsearch|es use <version> instead of valet-plus use elasticsearch|es <version>.
• Use 127.0.0.1 as Redis host instead of /tmp/redis.sock.
• Choose which binaries to install (default all) and self-update on valet-plus install command.
• Adds dependency on Docker for Elasticsearch, see https://docs.docker.com/desktop/install/mac-install/

Get in touch

We have a slack workspace available which you can join.

Yes, we have a Valet+ fan page https://www.weprovide.com/valet-plus