Setup web development in linux

The official Laravel Valet development environment is great for Apple users, but there is no official Valet for Linux or Windows. However, the community has created two versions of Valet for Linux:

• cpriego/valet-linux (Valet Linux)
• genesisweb/valet-linux-plus (Valet Linux+)
• nvm-sh/nvm (Node Version Manager)

Among these, Valet Linux+ has more features, such as MySQL database handling from the command line, MailHog, Redis, sharing sites on LAN, securing sites with TLS (HTTPS), and more.

This guide will show you how to install Valet Linux+ on an Ubuntu system.

Requirements

• Ubuntu base distro

Install Dependencies

sudo apt-get install network-manager libnss3-tools jq xsel

Install PHP & Extensions

Add the PHP PPA and install PHP 8:

sudo apt install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt update
sudo apt install php8.0-fpm

Install required PHP extensions:

sudo apt install php8.0-cli php8.0-common php8.0-curl php8.0-mbstring php8.0-opcache php8.0-readline php8.0-xml php8.0-zip php8.0-mysql php8.0-gd

Install other PHP version:

sudo apt install php<version>-fpm

Install required PHP extensions:

sudo apt install php<version>-cli and other do the same

Install MySQL Server

Valet Linux+ installs MySQL automatically, but it's better to install it manually:

sudo apt-get -y install mysql-server

Configure MySQL Authentication

sudo mysql

Then, run the following commands in the MySQL shell:

ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit;

Now, you can log in using:

mysql -u root -p

Install Composer

Install Composer using curl:

sudo apt install curl
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | sudo php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer

Verify installation:

composer --version

Install Valet Linux+

composer global require genesisweb/valet-linux-plus

Add the following to your shell profile (~/.bash_profile, ~/.bashrc, or ~/.zshrc):

export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.config/composer/vendor/bin"

Reload configuration using :

source ~/.zshrc

Restart your terminal and install Valet:

valet install

This installs Valet Linux+, Nginx, MySQL, Redis, Mailhog, and DnsMasq.

Verify Installation

Run:

ping -c1 foobar.test

park location

valet park

link a project

valet link

show all links

valet links

secure link

valet secure

Installing NVM

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.37.2/install.sh | bash

Attempts to add the source lines from the snippet below to the correct profile file (~/.bash_profile, ~/.zshrc, ~/.profile, or ~/.bashrc).

export NVM_DIR="$([ -z "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME-}" ] && printf %s "${HOME}/.nvm" || printf %s "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/nvm")"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" # This loads nvm

Reload configuration using :

source ~/.zshrc

Check the installed version, by running:

nvm --version

See list all available node.js versions:

nvm ls-remote

Install latest LTS version of node:

nvm install --lts