Stratos Compared With Laravel Herd, MAMP Pro and Docker Desktop for PHP Development
This updated comparison, written by the Stratos developer and assisted by AI, contrasts four tools for local PHP environments: Stratos, Laravel Herd Pro, MAMP Pro and Docker Desktop. It frames the choice around project needs such as Linux containers, Laravel focus, a graphical server manager, or a native Mac stack with debugging tools. The article compares their approaches, PHP version support, local domains and HTTPS, database workflows, coding-agent context, and debugging features. It stresses that the table describes workflows rather than universal feature parity, and that vendor features and paid entitlements change, so official pages should be checked. Stratos 1.7.1 is positioned for PHP and Laravel developers who want local macOS services with a bridge for coding agents that exposes schema metadata but not database rows.
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