What's Best Development Environment On Os X Maverikcs

Yii 2.0 General Discussions
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There are so much options to create a development environment on OS X Mavericks that it’s hard to find the best solution for developing with Yii/Yii2

Could anyone give advice about, MAMP, XAMMP, HomeBrew, composer etc. ?

Thanx,

Eric

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I’m using nginx, mysql, php55-fpm from macports.

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Thanx, will give that a try…

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I am using PostgreSQL, Apache2 with php5.5 as FastCGI with an nginx frontend, memcached from Homebrew.

Composer installed as phar, PHPUnit as added dev-dependency in composer.json

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What is the advantage of using [color=#1C2837][size=2]nginx over MAMP?[/size][/color]

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Eats less memory, serves static files faster, easier to use with different PHP versions at the same time.

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Sounds tempting. Easy to install too?

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Fairly easy.

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You might consider using VirtualBox and Vagrant for setting up your machines. For smaller projects I am running VirtualBox with a shell script for setting up a Linux machine (e.g.: Debian). Bigger projects (more team members) could benefit from using Vagrant as it allows versioning of server setups.

The point is: If you are moving to another OS, or if you want to change your webservers etc. it can easily become a pain to change your setup if you are using your main OS for development. Using a VM makes my life a lot easier and I can share my development environment with others if needed by passing the image. And another good point is that you can actually develop on a machine that works exactly like the one used for production.

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Agree with Haensel, Vagrant + puppet is a great duo for developing many applications on one machine.

Tip - start with puphpet.com - it generates working oob manifest. Look how it works and you’ll never go back to installing mampp, xampp and others.

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Thanks for the Puphpet tip! I’m setting it up now!