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Add to SafariWhen comparing Laragon vs PamPam, the Slant community recommends Laragon for most people. In the question“What are the best php localhost servers?” Laragon is ranked 2nd while PamPam is ranked 13th. The most important reason people chose Laragon is:
Laragon starts fast - instantly. All services in Laragon are compiled to native code so they run fast - much faster than Docker & Virtual Machines. Laragon uses its own service manager so all services also start quickly & parallelly.
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Pros
Pro Fast and powerful
Laragon starts fast - instantly. All services in Laragon are compiled to native code so they run fast - much faster than Docker & Virtual Machines.
Laragon uses its own service manager so all services also start quickly & parallelly.
Pro Easily add new PHP version
Pro Lightweight
Pro Auto SSL
Pro Supports many databases
Such as MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB.
Pro Portable
You can move the Laragon folder around (to other disks, laptops, sync to Cloud, etc.) without any worries.
Pro Pretty URLs
Work with your "app" using this nice, short, beautiful url: http://app.test .
Pro Lightweight
The core binary itself is less than 2MB and uses less than 4MB RAM when running.
Pro Easily add new Node.js version
Pro Great community support
Pro Linux support
You can install Laragon in Linux with the help of wine software.
Pro Open source
Pro Run both 32bit and 64bit systems
Because it's text-based and developed by powershell.
Pro Folder structure is clear
Pro Intuitive interface
Because its very focus is on basic features.
Pro Fast to start and stop services in 3-5 seconds
Pro Enable Virtual Host and SSL default
Pro Only a language and lightweight (< 100KB)
Useful to understand and customize it.
Pro Separate your data and server data
You can change dir of your data, make it more portable, save your data safer when you upgrade and move.
Pro Version switching
You can add more package versions, so you can switch between versions.
Pro Text-Based
All files are plain text, so they're understandable and modifiable. You can upgrade and build other versions yourself.
Pro Portable
You can move it around to other locations or machines, and it still runs normally.
Cons
Con Not working right out of the box, needs a lot of work to install basic components and has a lot of issues
Con Not intuitive
Poor documentation.
Con It is awesome but not available in Linux
There are many Linux developers so please make Laragon work on Linux.
Con Only support Windows
Con Difficult to install Laragon in Linux
You can install Laragon in Linux also with the help of wine software but it is difficult.
Con No built-in packages
You need to manually add zip versions of packages, but you can always update latest version of packages when you want, not depending on the maker of the stack.
Con It's very new so it has some unknown and unpredictable bugs
You can debug and fix it yourself though.
Con No documentation
But it does not take long time to learn to use.
Con Setup process is not too easy for new users
Con Only for Windows
But you can customize it for other OSs.
Con Very basic features
- Change versions of packages
- Change dir your data or server data
- Start or Stop services
- Add virtual host
- Add PHP dir and MariaDB dir to user environment path
Con Very basic stack (Apache, MariaDB, PHP)
Supports not a lot of software out of the box. If you want more, you need to upgrade it yourself. Fortunately, it's all in plain text, so you can.
