title: How can i speed up local PHP development?
body: <p>The last couple of years i run into the issue of slow local development. With slow i mean write some code, refresh the page and wait between 5-30 seconds to get a response. Anything below a couple of seconds is ok in my book. The slow results are when i work with Magento or Laravel based applications.</p>
  <p>Over the years i've tried allot of things to speed up development:</p>
  <ul>
  <li>switch from WAMP -&gt; uniserver -&gt; some others -&gt; Laragon</li>
  <li>Empty or adjust host file</li>
  <li>Different IDE's</li>
  <li>Ignore development folders / apache / mysql processes with virusscanner</li>
  <li>several guides to speed up</li>
  </ul>
  <p>Currently i'm developing a Laravel Nova application and it some screens take about <strong>20-30</strong> seconds to load (with Xdebug). This is a real pain!</p>
  <p>My setup:</p>
  <ul>
  <li>Core I5-3570K</li>
  <li>16 GB Ram</li>
  <li>Samsung SSD 860</li>
  <li>Windows 10 / default windows virusscanner</li>
  </ul>
  <p>Content hosts file:</p>
  <pre><code>127.0.0.1       localhost
  #::1            localhost
  </code></pre>
  <p><strong>My questions</strong></p>
  <p>So what can i do? Is there a faster way to develop or should i buy new hardware? Is developing in a VM or perhaps WSL 2 faster?</p>