Is Laravel really this slow?

Question

I just started using Laravel. I\'ve barely written any code yet, but my pages are taking nearly a second to load!

Answer 1

I know this is a little old question, but things changed. Laravel isn't that slow. It's, as mentioned, synced folders are slow. However, on Windows 10 I wasn't able to use rsync. I tried both cygwin and minGW. It seems like rsync is incompatible with git for windows's version of ssh.

Here is what worked for me: NFS.

Vagrant docs says:

NFS folders do not work on Windows hosts. Vagrant will ignore your request for NFS synced folders on Windows.

This isn't true anymore. We can use vagrant-winnfsd plugin nowadays. It's really simple to install:

1. Execute vagrant plugin install vagrant-winnfsd
2. Change in your Vagrantfile: config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", type: "nfs"
3. Add to Vagrantfile: config.vm.network "private_network", type: "dhcp"

That's all I needed to make NFS work. Laravel response time decreased from 500ms to 100ms for me.