Comparison with others vs valet and homestead

[jericopulvera]

Anyone can add a comparison of vessel with others such as Valet and Homestead?

Thanks.

[cringerjs]

There is no comparison. They are all different technologies. Vessel is using Docker.

I don't see how it's the package maintainer responsibility to tell you the difference between the technologies.

https://laravel.com/docs/5.5/valet
https://laravel.com/docs/5.5/homestead

[jericopulvera]

Oh ok thanks.

[fideloper]

Here's some basic info related to that:

1. Homestead is a full virtual machine (a little server running inside your main computer). It's potentially a bit heavy in terms of CPU/RAM usage, but it's the most like running stuff inside of a "real" server
2. Valet installs PHP, Caddy, MySQL and I believe Redis (?) on your mac directly. It's the least like a real server environment, but it's the fastest way to run your code as it's just software running directly on your Mac (Valet is Mac-only)
3. Vessel is sort of an in-between. It's not a full VM (although on Mac it has to run in a small layer of virtualization, so there is a small VM running), and containers generally only use what CPU/RAM they need. It's based on Docker as mentioned. It can run processes such as MySQL, php-fpm, Nginx, (etc) within it's own little world ("container") that uses some of the stuff from the host system but also still sectioned off from the host system.