Comparisons #

Yeah, We(DockR) isn't the first tool to solve the development workload. There are tons and tons of options out there.
Let's find the difference for few popular ones.

Laravel Sail #

Sail is a great tool for developing Laravel application.

• Sail supports only PHP 8.0 and PHP 8.1. Most of our Laravel applications are years old and are far beyond migrating them to the latest version.
• Sail cannot connect multiple projects to same DB. Technically It can but it has some complications.
• Sail doesn't have the proxy to pass the domain based routing.

Homestead #

Homestead was the ultimate tool for local laravel development. The problem starts from the latest hardware tech.
It brings us back to where DockR started.
Homestead doesn't support the latest ARM based Mac Chips (M1, M2, M3, or so on).