Laravel Valet
Development environment for Laravel sites on macOS that serves each site on a .test domain through Nginx and DnsMasq.
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.
Identity
Rendering and deploy
Releases
Adoption
Sources
- 2026-10-28: links, Written in, License, GitHub stars
api.github.com/repos/laravel/valet - 2026-10-28: links, Categories, Runtime, Runs as, Install with
laravel.com/docs/valet - 2026-10-28: Minimum runtime
github.com/laravel/valet/blob/v4.12.0/composer.json - 2026-10-28: License model
github.com/laravel/valet/blob/main/README.md - 2026-10-28: Current major version, Last release
github.com/laravel/valet/releases/tag/v4.12.0 - 2026-10-28: First release
github.com/laravel/valet/releases/tag/v1.1.3 - 2026-10-28: Maintainer
raw.githubusercontent.com/laravel/valet/main/composer.json - 2026-10-28: Contributors
api.github.com/repos/laravel/valet/contributors?per_page=1 - 2026-10-28: Packagist downloads
packagist.org/packages/laravel/valet.json - 2026-10-28: Dependent packages, Dependent repositories
packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/packagist.org/packages/laravel/valet