## Introduction Valet is a Laravel development environment for Mac minimalists. No Vagrant, no `/etc/hosts` file. You can even share your sites publicly using local tunnels. _Yeah, we like it too._ Laravel Valet configures your Mac to always run Nginx in the background when your machine starts. Then, using [DnsMasq](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnsmasq), Valet proxies all requests on the `*.test` domain to point to sites installed on your local machine. In other words, a blazing fast Laravel development environment that uses roughly 7mb of RAM. Valet isn't a complete replacement for Vagrant or Homestead, but provides a great alternative if you want flexible basics, prefer extreme speed, or are working on a machine with a limited amount of RAM. ## Official Documentation Documentation for Valet can be found on the [Laravel website](https://laravel.com/docs/valet). ## Contributing Thank you for considering contributing to Valet! You can read the contribution guide [here](.github/CONTRIBUTING.md). ## Code of Conduct In order to ensure that the Laravel community is welcoming to all, please review and abide by the [Code of Conduct](https://laravel.com/docs/contributions#code-of-conduct). ## Security Vulnerabilities Please review [our security policy](https://github.com/laravel/valet/security/policy) on how to report security vulnerabilities. ## License Laravel Valet is open-sourced software licensed under the [MIT license](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).