# Laravel Valet [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/laravel/valet.svg)](https://travis-ci.org/laravel/valet) [![Total Downloads](https://poser.pugx.org/laravel/valet/d/total.svg)](https://packagist.org/packages/laravel/valet) [![Latest Stable Version](https://poser.pugx.org/laravel/valet/v/stable.svg)](https://packagist.org/packages/laravel/valet) [![Latest Unstable Version](https://poser.pugx.org/laravel/valet/v/unstable.svg)](https://packagist.org/packages/laravel/valet) [![License](https://poser.pugx.org/laravel/valet/license.svg)](https://packagist.org/packages/laravel/valet) ## Introduction Valet is a Laravel development environment for Mac minimalists. No Vagrant, No Apache, No Nginx, 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 [Caddy](https://caddyserver.com/) in the background when your machine starts. Then, using [DnsMasq](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnsmasq), Valet proxies all requests on the `*.dev` 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). ## License Laravel Valet is open-sourced software licensed under the [MIT license](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)