Laravel on Mac: MacFullStack practices

Laravel is first-class in MacFullStack: project template, public/ docroot, Mailpit, Redis, workers.

Daily workflow

1. Native runtime, PHP 8.3+ on the PHP tab.
2. macstack shell --install — one PATH for php, composer, artisan.
3. Mail → Tools → Mail (Mailpit).
4. Pro: managed queue:work, schedule:work, Reverb on the project card.

HTTPS and Vite

• https://project.localhost:8443 with mkcert.
• Inertia/Vite: Node proxy on :5173 (Pro) — one domain for API and frontend.

Debugging

• Xdebug on the PHP tab, port 9003.
• Debug Dumps viewer for API dump() (Pro auto-start).
• MCP for Cursor: macstack mcp — doctor and projects from the IDE.

Compare with Herd: /blog/macfullstack-vs-herd. Docs: /help/first-project.