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You can even create new Laravel projects inside of your Virtual Machine and have them synced to your local machine.

That means that you will not need software like XAMPP or WAMP to have a web-server with PHP/MySQL you can do it all from your virtual machine.

The documentation should make a little more sense now when it says that Homestead is just a “pre-packaged Vagrant box.” The pre-packaged Vagrant box comes with: Once the necessary properties are set in the vagrant file, you will be able to use the command vagrant up to start the virtual machine with the vagrant properties.Īlright, now that we understand what Vagrant is all about, let’s move on to Homestead. Well, in Homestead you’re not since Homestead manages the Vagrant file for you. You, as a software developer, will be required to maintain a Vagrant file. In a nutshell, Vagrant is a tool that helps to create and maintain Virtual Machines. The VM emulates an entire Operating System while containers rely on the host OS. While Docker uses containers, Vagrant uses Virtual Machines. If you’re familiar with Docker, it’s similar to that. Vagrant is just a tool that helps developers create predictable development environments for your application. In the second paragraph, the docs state that “Laravel Homestead is an official, pre-packaged Vagrant box that provides you a wonderful development environment without requiring you to install PHP, a web server, and any other server software on your local machine.”