Prepare your Mac for local Laravel development
After first struggling for years with setting up my Mac for local development by trying to update the pre-installed version of PHP and then adding mcrypt, MySQL and whichever other components, I finally started using Homebrew while simultaneously switching from Apache to nginx. This was a huge improvement from what I was used to, but Taylor Otwell gifted us with an even better solution with Laravel Homestead.
Even though it does come with setup instructions, there are many steps involved when starting from scratch. It was also frustrating when things broke during setup, since certain things are assumed from people installing the software. Never assume.
So, I worked through a few separate tutorials and compiled this all-in-one list of what to do. Here we go!
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