Valet Overview
Valet is a minimal PHP development environment for macOS, created by Taylor Otwell of the Laravel project. It is designed for developers who want a fast, lightweight local setup without running heavy virtual machines or container stacks. Valet configures the Mac to serve your PHP sites quietly in the background, using a lightweight web server and a local DNS service so that any project folder is instantly reachable at a friendly.test web address. It works with Laravel and many other PHP frameworks and content systems, supports local HTTPS, lets you share a local site with others through a temporary public URL, and uses very little memory because it relies on services already suited to the Mac. Valet is installed and managed from the command line, typically through the PHP dependency manager Composer, which makes it quick to set up and update. It is free and open source. This page links to the official Valet source.
