README

Laragon - The Dev Environment for Entrepreneurs

 What is Laragon?

Laragon is a portable, isolated, fast & powerful universal development environment for PHP, Node.js, Python. 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 6MB and uses around 4MB - 10MB 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!

 Starting with Laragon 7.x, a license is required to use Laragon. For more details, visit .

 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 way you can add another versions of PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, Go, Apache, Nginx, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB,... effortlessly.
- Modern & Powerful
  Laragon comes with a modern architecture 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:
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 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. Most of the time it will work out-of-the-box without the 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.

Top issues

Discussions

Latest release

Fixed and improvements:
- Update Apache to the latest version 2.4.69-261002-Win64-VS18
- Update PHP 8.3 to the latest version, 8.3.36 (Critical Security Fixes)
- Update Nginx to the latest version 1.30.6
- Update Node.js 22 LTS to the latest version 22.23.4
- Update Composer to the latest version 2.10.3

Notes:
 To use Laragon's bundled PHP, Node.js, and Python in any Terminal, code editor, or IDE, simply click  Tools  PATH  Add Laragon to PATH.

- Smoothly upgrade from older version of Laragon to Laragon 8:
Please follow this guide: https://github.com/leokhoa/laragon/discussions/10