Benefits of Using Laravel Homestead With Vagrant

by Shubhashish Reliantekk IT Services Ltd Owner Vagrant is the feature which has used since last many years in PHP. Now main question arises here that why to use vagrant. Vagrant creates environment which is easy to configure, reproducible, and transferable work environments which in result build most industry specific and featured technology controlled by a single workflow which increase efficiency and feasibility developers team.

You need to integrate your development environment with Vagrant, so that you will get easy process for development, more effective and even more enjoyable. Vagrant is not so easy to learn so you have to focus on each aspect while working on it. If you are going to start with Vagrant then it seems a single framework but in real it’s a totally different to configure and provisioning custom server with featured requirements by using Puppet or Chef.

There are strict set of server requirements in Laravel framework in compare to other PHP frameworks and projects. It doesn’t mean that it’s a drawback for Laravel homestead. It indicates that Laravel is capable of using tons of modern features and functionalities. The biggest answer to all this by Laravel is Homestead. Homestead is a pre-packaged Vagrant box which has all the essential PHP features and functionalities to use Laravel and then some additional cool features.

What is Vagrant and why it’s Useful for Developers?

Vagrant is rapid, simple and helps you in managing multiple development environments at a time.

Consider that you are developing an application with a team of 10-15 developers and you are expecting to develop this awesome. This app uses various frameworks and platforms such as the Laravel Framework, curl, MySQL, MongoDB and many more. At higher level in all this, Laravel has the particular necessity of PHP version 5.3.7 or 7 and the MCrypt PHP Extension.

Generally, you wish that all developers working on this app would have uniform development environment. Now the main question arise here that is it possible that all the developers on the team have expert knowledge in Sysops or can become System Admin. Setting up identical development environments is a huge task. On the other hand, some developers use Mac while others Use Windows or Linux. If you will set up such environments then all developers would become frustrate because of configuration systems continuously.
Now what comes here which manage all this mess in Perfect way. Here we will come for Vagrant, which manage all this for developers so that they focus on coding rather than managing development environment.

With Vagrant, you will be able to make an update in configuration file, for this you need to reload Vagrant boxes once. After of this each developer can start implementing queues in their code. Now f they’re on Windows, Linux, or a Mac it will not matter because everyone’s development environment remains identical.  If you don’t want to use vagrant for developing, it’s still a best way to learn the details of server administration. Setting up servers or distinguish problems in comfortable way is an important factor of being a full stack Laravel developer, and Vagrant is the perfect in all this.

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