Localhost, Php artisan serve and homestead Pro/Cons

I am new to laravel and I am confused which environment I will used to create an app w/ db integration (MYSQL).

What are the pro/cons of each environment? thanks

Although this question is opinion based, my answer will be based on my experience.

WAMP (Localhost) Wamp is short for Window Apache Mysql PHP

Pros: - Wamp can easily be setup on windows by installing Wamp server, EasyPHP e.t.c

Cons:

Setting up Laravel in Wamp is a big pain as it involves advance configuration else you end up with URL e.g http://localhost/project/public
I have tried installing Memcached without success on Wamp; which is a good caching server for PHP/Laravel

PHP Artisan

Pros:

Cons:

Homestead

This is the preferred development environment for Laravel

Pros:

Cons:

I noticed each time shutdown my host system without properly saving homestead, I have to provision homestead each time to make it work which atimes requires internet connection
there are some issues peculiar to Homestead that doesn't have specific solution you have to try a lot of things to resolve issue.
Homestead seems to be slow atimes

LNMP

Linux (Ubuntu) Nginx Mysql PHP and virtualbox

This is my best development environment. It takes minimum Linux experience to make this work but once achieved you will enjoy it.

Pros:

fully customize and install anything you want such memcached, gulp, Mysql , PHP. Git, Just anything
broaden your experience as a programmer do things yourself like system admin
It hardly crash unlike homestead. You can always take snapshots in virtualbox
easily move to a new system by coping virtual hard disk to another virtualbox

Cons:

These are just few of my experience which my answer is based upon.

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34868575/localhost-php-artisan-serve-and-homestead-pro-cons

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