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Laravel Valet vs XAMPP

A side-by-side look at Laravel Valet and XAMPP. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Laravel Valet

Laravel Valet

Development

Laravel Valet is a lightweight local development environment for Mac users. It serves PHP applications using Nginx without requiring a full web server installation. Easy to install and configure.

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XAMPP

XAMPP

Development

XAMPP is an open-source web server solution stack package developed by Apache Friends, consisting mainly of the Apache HTTP Server, MySQL database, and interpreters for scripts written in the PHP and Perl programming languages.

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