swap_horiz DDEV Alternatives

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Laravel Valet

Minimalist macOS development environment for PHP apps created by Taylor Otwell and Caleb Porzio, running Nginx as a back...

Lightweight Macos PHP Local Dev

8.5 Great

2

LocalWP

Free local WordPress development application formerly known as Local by Flywheel, developed by WP Engine to simplify Wor...

Wordpress Cross Platform Mysql PHP

8.4 Great

3

Laragon

Lightweight Windows local development environment created by Leo Khoa, notable for near-instant setup and portable suppo...

Portable Fast PHP Local Dev

8.2 Great

4

LEMP Stack

LAMP variant replacing Apache with Nginx, favored for its event-driven architecture, lower memory footprint, and higher...

Linux Mysql PHP Classic Web

7.5 Good

5

Bedrock (Roots.io)

Bedrock by Roots.io is a modern WordPress boilerplate introducing Composer-based dependency management and a structured...

Composer Modern Wordpress Deployment

7.5 Good

6

Hugo + Netlify CMS

Hugo paired with Netlify CMS combines one of the fastest static site generators—written in Go and capable of building th...

CMS Jamstack Netlify Hugo

7.5 Good

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LAMP Stack

Open-source Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP web stack widely adopted in the late 1990s as a foundation for dynamic website...

Linux Mysql PHP Apache

7.2 Good

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MAMP Pro

Commercial macOS and Windows local server environment by appsolute GmbH, extending free MAMP with virtual hosts, multipl...

Macos Mysql PHP Local Dev

7.2 Good

9

Devilbox

Docker-based local PHP development stack hosted on GitHub that provides fully automated LAMP and LEMP environments with...

Open Source Docker PHP Local Dev

7.2 Good

10

Sage (Roots.io)

Sage by Roots.io is a WordPress starter theme that adopts a Laravel Blade templating engine and a modern asset build pip...

Theme Wordpress PHP Blade

7.2 Good

11

WampServer

Free Windows WAMP server manager developed by Romain Bourdon, providing a system-tray GUI to manage Apache, MySQL, and P...

Mysql PHP Local Dev Apache

7.0 Good

12

WordPress + WooCommerce

Combining WordPress and WooCommerce creates an open-source e-commerce platform developed by Automattic that powers milli...

Ecommerce Open Source CMS Mysql

7.0 Good

13

Docksal

Docker-powered local development environment designed for team workflow consistency, widely used across Drupal and WordP...

Open Source Docker PHP Local Dev

6.9 Fair

14

MAMP Stack

macOS-oriented local server environment bundling Apache, MySQL, and PHP, first released around 2001 by appsolute GmbH fo...

Macos Mysql PHP Local Dev

6.8 Fair

15

Laravel Homestead

Official Vagrant-based virtual machine for Laravel development, providing a pre-configured Ubuntu box with Nginx, PHP, M...

PHP Local Dev Vm Laravel

6.5 Fair

16

AMP Stack (Apache MySQL PHP)

AMP Stack (Apache, MySQL, PHP) is a cross-platform web server trio that dominated early dynamic web hosting in the late...

Linux Mysql PHP Apache

6.5 Fair

17

WAMP Stack

Windows-based local development stack combining Windows OS, Apache, MySQL, and PHP, providing a LAMP-equivalent environm...

Mysql PHP Local Dev Apache

6.3 Fair

18

AMPPS

Cross-platform local development stack by Softaculous bundling Apache, MySQL, MongoDB, PHP, Perl, and Python alongside a...

Cross Platform Mysql PHP Local Dev

5.8 Mediocre

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EasyPHP DevServer

One of the earliest GUI-based Windows PHP development packages, originally released in 1999 in France, bundling Apache,...

Mysql PHP Local Dev Apache

5.2 Mediocre

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AppServ

Free Thai-developed Windows WAMP package bundling Apache, PHP, MySQL, and phpMyAdmin, widely used in Southeast Asia for...

Mysql PHP Local Dev Apache

4.8 Poor