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04-14-2013, 10:15 AM #1Newbie
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Mac Web Development
I recently moved to mac for web development. Back when I was still on a pc I used WAMP. I know that there is MAMP for mac but I also heard great things about using "homebrew" instead. Now I'm choosing between MAMP or homebrew / installing packages individually .
For mac users who's into web development, which would you recommend?
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04-14-2013, 10:29 AM #2Junior Guru Wannabe
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04-14-2013, 03:07 PM #3Web Hosting Master
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How technical savvy are you? Will you open Terminal?
If you can get around the terminal, Homebrew is absolutely awesome.
OSX comes with Apache/PHP already installed - the versions depend on which version of OSX, and they might not have any of the extra modules. You just need to enable Apache.
If you need a different PHP version, you can (and probably should) install it. I'd use homebrew with the homebrew-php repo.
If you can't get around the terminal, MAMP works OK.
If you use the terminal, I'd install mariadb, imagemagick, pngcrush, git, etc. aswell through brew.█ Mediadrive - Revamped Canadian KVM-backed custom cloud platform and packages coming soon!
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04-15-2013, 05:58 AM #4Web Monkey
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I much prefer to use a server-like environment for development, and not fiddle with the settings of my desktop/laptop even if it's possible. I'd install Ubuntu to a virtual machine (Virtualbox is a free choice). I'd probably try Vagrant, which handles much of the setup:
http://blairwilliams.com/2012/04/12/...-with-vagrant/
Not doing this myself, because dev servers fit my needs much better.
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Thats an approach I used to take (headless VBox work via local SSH client) however it wasnt free:
1) An additional start-up app adding a minimum of several seconds to boot
2) Hot privates - VBox kill battery life and cool laptop
3) That time you need to use a host app (gimp etc..) on something in your project directory, pain and problems with sshfs/samba
4) Explicit NAT port forwarding makes stuff like Browserstack take another minute of twoMattF - Since the start..
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04-15-2013, 09:33 AM #6Newbie
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I'm kind of a tech savy, I have been accessing my VPS (UBUNTU) through the terminal. I have some knowledge in terminals though its pretty much in an basic to average level. I've been wanting to get to know terminals and make use of it. The only thing I got doubts is that would it be complicated to use homebrew for an average tech savy like me? I really want to refrain from messing up my mac.LOL
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04-15-2013, 11:57 AM #7Web Hosting Guru
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I've been using MAMP for a couple years now without much problem, mostly for PHP/MySQL stuff. Homebrew sounds interesting though, might neeed to check it out!
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04-24-2013, 08:26 AM #8Newbie
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I went for Homebrew. As of now everything is running smoothly!
You may consider this thread closed.
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04-24-2013, 03:57 PM #9Junior Guru
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I much prefer to use a server-like environment for development, and not fiddle with the settings of my desktop/laptop even if it's possible
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04-26-2013, 05:18 AM #10Newbie
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We also use an dedicated development server. But thats just personal preference.
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