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What is Herd?

Herd is a blazing fast, native Laravel and PHP development environment for Windows. It provides everything that you need to get started with Laravel development. It ships with PHP, nginx, and Node.js.

You can integrate Herd with Laravel Forge and use a single tool from setting up your site locally to deploying it on a remote server.

Herd Pro completes your development environment with service management for databases, caches, and more. It comes with testing and debugging tools tailored to Laravel, and you'll love them when you're working on web applications every day.

After installing Herd, it routes all requests to *.test domains to sites on your local machine, and allows you to use composer, the Laravel installer, and Expose directly in your terminal.

More than 25,000 web developers use Herd every day to create awesome web applications for their users, and they love it.