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I’ve been a long time MAMP Pro user, but have started a new site with LocalWP, but not using the Local WP hosting service.
Just wondering people that have used Local for a while, if it has been working out fine, or should I stick with MAMP Pro?
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This is almost entirely a personal preference. In my opinion, local is better for ease of use. It’s docker on the backend. I haven’t used mamp in 10 years, so take it for what it’s worth. But local being isolated means you can change PHP versions and other environment variables without affecting your entire system.
Personally, I just use docker directly. For WP I use wp-env. Comes with a bunch of integration tests, and wp specific config preinstalled. And it’s sharable…which doesn’t matter to everyone, but for me I have team members all over the world so being able to share the local config in a json file for each project is kinda neat. Just pull the repo down, composer install, and you’ve got the entire project mapped locally…that’s a win.
I would just stick with MAMP Pro if it’s already working for you. Then you have it if you ever have to do something non-WordPress. Also I use Bedrock for WordPress, and I’ve heard its annoying to use that with LocalWP but I haven’t tried it myself.
Laravel Herd is a good cross between LocalWP and MAMP Pro. You can set a folder (or many folders) to be where you put web spaces. Each can run different versions of PHP and you can run anything that will run on a web server. I do a lot of WordPress, but I also do other “stuff” so it works well for me.
LocalWP is fine so long as you don’t fuck around with nginx/apache config
I started using local a year ago and really like it.