Laragon - The Development Environment for Innovators

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+# Laragon - The Development Environment for Innovators
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+## 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.
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+Laragon is great for building and managing modern web applications. It is focused on performance  - designed around stability, simplicity, flexibility and freedom.
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+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.
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+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.
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+
+*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.*
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+
+## 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.