diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ffd6fe14 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +# Laragon - The Development Environment for Innovators + +## What is Laragon? + +Laragon is a portable, isolated, fast & powerful universal development environment for PHP, Node.js, Python, Java, Go, Ruby. It is fast, lightweight, easy-to-use and easy-to-extend. + +Laragon is great for building and managing modern web applications. It is focused on performance - designed around stability, simplicity, flexibility and freedom. + +Laragon is very lightweight and will stay as lean as possible. The core binary itself is less than 2MB and uses less than 4MB RAM when running. + +Laragon doesn't use Windows services. It has its own `service orchestration` which manages services asynchronously and non-blocking so you'll find things run fast & smoothly with Laragon. + +Enjoy! + +## Features + +- **Pretty URLs** + Use `app.test` instead of `localhost/app`. +- **Portable** + You can move Laragon folder around (to another disks, to another laptops, sync to Cloud,...) without any worries. +- **Isolated** + Laragon has an isolated environment with your OS - it will keep your system clean. +- **Easy Operation** + Unlike others which pre-config for you, Laragon **`auto-configs`** all the complicated things. That why you can add another versions of PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, Go, Apache, Nginx, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB,... effortlessly. +- **Modern & Powerful** + Laragon comes with modern architect which is suitable to build modern web apps. You can work with both Apache & Nginx as they are fully-managed. + Also, Laragon makes things a lot easier: + - Wanna have a Wordpress CMS? Just 1 click. + - Wanna show your local project to customers? Just 1 click. + - Wanna enable/disable a PHP extension? Just 1 click. + + + +*Laragon is trully isolated & portable. However, you may need to use the installer as it will detect and install missing run-time components that are required to run C++ applications built using Visual Studio such as `PHP, Apache` for you.* + + +## How fast? +Laragon starts instantly. You can set Laragon autorun when Windows starts. When running, Laragon uses just a little amount of your RAM. +Here is the GUI of Laragon: +![0_1513173700919_01-dashboard.png](https://i.imgur.com/f8rBqSU.png) + +## How easy? +- Laragon is very easy to install & upgrade. Just download the latest version and click `Next, Next, Next...` +- Laragon is very easy to use. For almost time, it will work out-of-the-box that you don't need to touch any configuration files. +- Laragon is very easy to extend. You can add other services to your current stack by just extracting them to `Laragon's bin` folder.