laravel-valet/readme.md

# Laravel Valet

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## 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 PHP's built-in web server 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](http://laravel.com/docs/5.2/valet).

## License

Laravel Valet is open-sourced software licensed under the [MIT license](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)