I’m only allowing syncing of files which I intend to commit since all other operations will happen within the VM. The only interesting part of the Homestead.yaml is the folders section which I optimized for filesystem performance reasons.

I chose Homestead over Docker containers mainly because Homestead comes pre-baked with all the dependencies I need, and it was easy to set up. In order to support another developer I switched the project over to Homestead. The project im testing this with I started development on my Linux machine about a year ago. I want to be able to develop on Linux, Mac, or Windows, so I’ll need a workflow that works for all of those. Recently Jetbrains announced similar functionality. You’ve been able to do this for some time using VSCode, via it’s Remote Development feature. You might be thinking, “just use docker” right? That’s part of the solution, but the missing piece for a while has been a way to run the development environment directly along-side the application so that you can have a seamless experience when debugging. It’s the end of 2021, and we can finally port our development environments.

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