# Laravel Valet

Development environment for Laravel sites on macOS that serves each site on a .test domain through Nginx and DnsMasq.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/laravel-valet/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-28
Listed since: 2026-10-28

## Record

### Links

- repository: https://github.com/laravel/valet
- docs: https://laravel.com/docs/valet

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Taylor Otwell
- maintainerType: unknown
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2016
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: dev-tool
- hosting: not applicable
- language: php
- runtime: php
- runtimeMin: php 7.1
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: local
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: composer global require

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 4
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-03-10

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 2606
- packagistDownloads: 926431
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 202
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 33
- dependentPackages: 13

### Sources

- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/laravel/valet (read 2026-10-28)
- urls: https://laravel.com/docs/valet (read 2026-10-28)
- category: https://laravel.com/docs/valet (read 2026-10-28)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/laravel/valet (read 2026-10-28)
- runtime: https://laravel.com/docs/valet (read 2026-10-28)
- runtimeMin: https://github.com/laravel/valet/blob/v4.12.0/composer.json (read 2026-10-28)
- runsAs: https://laravel.com/docs/valet (read 2026-10-28)
- installMethod: https://laravel.com/docs/valet (read 2026-10-28)
- license: https://api.github.com/repos/laravel/valet (read 2026-10-28)
- licenseModel: https://github.com/laravel/valet/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-28)
- currentMajor: https://github.com/laravel/valet/releases/tag/v4.12.0 (read 2026-10-28)
- latestReleaseDate: https://github.com/laravel/valet/releases/tag/v4.12.0 (read 2026-10-28)
- firstRelease: https://github.com/laravel/valet/releases/tag/v1.1.3 (read 2026-10-28)
- maintainer: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/laravel/valet/main/composer.json (read 2026-10-28)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/laravel/valet (read 2026-10-28)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/laravel/valet/contributors?per_page=1 (read 2026-10-28)
- packagistDownloads: https://packagist.org/packages/laravel/valet.json (read 2026-10-28)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/packagist.org/packages/laravel/valet (read 2026-10-28)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/packagist.org/packages/laravel/valet (read 2026-10-28)

## Notes

Laravel Valet is a development environment for Laravel applications on macOS. It runs Nginx in the background when the Mac starts and uses DnsMasq to point requests for the .test domain at sites on the developer's own machine. Valet is installed as a global Composer package, and its docs say it requires macOS and Homebrew.

## Worth knowing

The docs also point to Laravel Herd, which includes Valet, PHP and Composer, for developers who want the same setup on macOS or Windows.

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