leokhoa/laragon

Laragon - The Dev Environment for Entrepreneurs

What is Laragon?

Laragon is a portable, isolated, fast & powerful universal development environment for PHP, Node.js, Python. It is fast, lightweight, easy-to-use and easy-to-extend.

Laragon is great for building and managing modern web applications. It is focused on performance - designed around stability, simplicity, flexibility and freedom.

Laragon is very lightweight and will stay as lean as possible. The core binary itself is less than 6MB and uses around 4MB - 10MB RAM when running.

Laragon doesn't use Windows services. It has its own service orchestration which manages services asynchronously and non-blocking so you'll find things run fast & smoothly with Laragon.

Enjoy!

Starting with Laragon 7.x, a license is required to use Laragon. For more details, visit https://laragon.lemonsqueezy.com/.

Features

• Pretty URLs Use app.test instead of localhost/app.
• Portable You can move Laragon folder around (to another disks, to another laptops, sync to Cloud,...) without any worries.
• Isolated Laragon has an isolated environment with your OS - it will keep your system clean.
• Easy Operation Unlike others which pre-config for you, Laragon auto-configs all the complicated things. That way you can add another versions of PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, Go, Apache, Nginx, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB,... effortlessly.
• Modern & Powerful Laragon comes with a modern architecture which is suitable to build modern web apps. You can work with both Apache & Nginx as they are fully-managed. Also, Laragon makes things a lot easier:
  • Wanna have a Wordpress CMS? Just 1 click.
  • Wanna show your local project to customers? Just 1 click.
  • Wanna enable/disable a PHP extension? Just 1 click.

Laragon is trully isolated & portable. However, you may need to use the installer as it will detect and install missing run-time components that are required to run C++ applications built using Visual Studio such as PHP, Apache for you.

How fast?

Laragon starts instantly. You can set Laragon autorun when Windows starts. When running, Laragon uses just a little amount of your RAM. Here is the GUI of Laragon:

How easy?

• Laragon is very easy to install & upgrade. Just download the latest version and click Next, Next, Next...
• Laragon is very easy to use. Most of the time it will work out-of-the-box without the need to touch any configuration files.
• Laragon is very easy to extend. You can add other services to your current stack by just extracting them to Laragon's bin folder.