Herd is a blazing fast, native Laravel and PHP development environment for macOS. It provides everything that you need to get started with Laravel development. It ships with PHP, nginx, dnsmasq and Node.js.




Nitro Server is described as 'Create web servers with everything you need and deploy them wherever you prefer' and is a Web Server in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Nitro Server for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Self-Hosted and BSD apps. The best Nitro Server alternative is XAMPP, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Nitro Server are nginx, Apache HTTP Server, Caddy and Ferron.
Herd is a blazing fast, native Laravel and PHP development environment for macOS. It provides everything that you need to get started with Laravel development. It ships with PHP, nginx, dnsmasq and Node.js.




Mongoose is easy to use web server. It also can be used as embedded web server library to provide web interface to applications.


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, or any other server software on your local machine.
Abyss Web Server is a compact web server available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD operating systems.




Faster local development for Drupal, WordPress, and beyond. Kalabox is the easiest way to develop websites and get them live. Get rid of the drudgery and have more fun!
Kalabox is now discontinued. The successor is Lando.






Open Server Panel is a powerful alternative to WAMP stacks like Xampp, Wampserver, Herd, EasyPHP, Vertrigo, and similar solutions. This application runs on the Windows operating system, supports Apache and Nginx as web servers, and provides the ability to run various versions of...

Fenix is a desktop web server for developers. A simple and visual static web server with collaboration features.




Lando is a free, open source, cross-platform, local development environment and DevOps tool built on Docker container technology and developed by Tandem.

USBWebserver is a bundled package of Apache, MySQL, PHP, phpMyAdmin Mini Relay and software that allows a Web server from a USB stick to run.

