When comparing Wamp.NET vs Laragon, the Slant community recommends Laragon for most people. In the question“What are the best php localhost servers?” Laragon is ranked 2nd while Wamp.NET is ranked 8th. 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 Auto Vhost creation with SSL certificates that don't give errors
Pro MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
Pro Auto updates
Pro Wildcard DNS
Pro Auto installers for Wordpress, Joomla, Laravel, etc.
Pro Apache and Nignx side by side
You can install Apache and Nignx side by side on different port without messing with any config file, directly from GUI.
Pro CLI PHP / mySQL defaults
Can setup PHP and mySQL binary path aliases.
Pro Free
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.
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.