<story><title>Show HN: IndigoStack – a new native macOS app for local web development</title><url>https://indigostack.app/</url><text>Hi HN,&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m opening up the beta for IndigoStack. It&amp;#x27;s a native macOS app which provides a fresh take on how to run all the services you need for local web development. I&amp;#x27;ve been building it for myself as a Laravel &amp;amp; Drupal developer and I&amp;#x27;m now looking to get some beta testers on board!&lt;p&gt;Check it out, and don&amp;#x27;t forget to sign up to the forums to give us your feedback!&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;indigostack.app&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;indigostack.app&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;My motivation:&lt;p&gt;Like many developers I&amp;#x27;ve developed a love-hate relationship with the existing options for local development on a Mac. If they&amp;#x27;re virtualised, you&amp;#x27;ll often get...&lt;p&gt;* high CPU usage
* high RAM usage
* poor filesystem performance &amp;#x2F; syncing
* command line and configuration complexity&lt;p&gt;And existing native solutions tend to be either too simplistic, or command line-based or both.&lt;p&gt;So I&amp;#x27;ve built IndigoStack with everything I liked and wanted, running everything natively on your Mac:&lt;p&gt;* services are all native &amp;amp; fast
* services are standalone; macOS updates won&amp;#x27;t ruin your setup
* able to run multiple services (eg PHPs) simultaneously
* easily build &amp;#x2F; start &amp;#x2F; stop &amp;#x2F; rebuild your stacks in the GUI
* run multiple projects which don&amp;#x27;t interfere with each other
* config-in-code; quickly and easily share stacks within a team</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>soniktrooth</author><text>Anyone who thinks that Docker isn&amp;#x27;t a problem is obviously on Linux and not on a Mac. While I agree with the concept of Docker being fantastic, the practical reality is that it&amp;#x27;s painfully slow on MacOS even with the new virtiofs. I have been beta testing Indigo for the past week with Drupal sites and I can confidently say this is an order of magnitude faster at everything but especially things that you do repetitively all day, every day: clearing cache, config import, `drush uli`. There&amp;#x27;s no syncing issues to deal with so you&amp;#x27;re never left wondering if you saved some incorrect css or if it just hasn&amp;#x27;t synced into the container yet. I&amp;#x27;m still yet to come across a configuration I couldn&amp;#x27;t replicate based on a fair number of Pantheon, Platform.sh and Acquia hosted sites.&lt;p&gt;I like making websites, I don&amp;#x27;t like tinkering with servers.</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: IndigoStack – a new native macOS app for local web development</title><url>https://indigostack.app/</url><text>Hi HN,&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m opening up the beta for IndigoStack. It&amp;#x27;s a native macOS app which provides a fresh take on how to run all the services you need for local web development. I&amp;#x27;ve been building it for myself as a Laravel &amp;amp; Drupal developer and I&amp;#x27;m now looking to get some beta testers on board!&lt;p&gt;Check it out, and don&amp;#x27;t forget to sign up to the forums to give us your feedback!&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;indigostack.app&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;indigostack.app&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;My motivation:&lt;p&gt;Like many developers I&amp;#x27;ve developed a love-hate relationship with the existing options for local development on a Mac. If they&amp;#x27;re virtualised, you&amp;#x27;ll often get...&lt;p&gt;* high CPU usage
* high RAM usage
* poor filesystem performance &amp;#x2F; syncing
* command line and configuration complexity&lt;p&gt;And existing native solutions tend to be either too simplistic, or command line-based or both.&lt;p&gt;So I&amp;#x27;ve built IndigoStack with everything I liked and wanted, running everything natively on your Mac:&lt;p&gt;* services are all native &amp;amp; fast
* services are standalone; macOS updates won&amp;#x27;t ruin your setup
* able to run multiple services (eg PHPs) simultaneously
* easily build &amp;#x2F; start &amp;#x2F; stop &amp;#x2F; rebuild your stacks in the GUI
* run multiple projects which don&amp;#x27;t interfere with each other
* config-in-code; quickly and easily share stacks within a team</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Sophistifunk</author><text>What&amp;#x27;s it actually do? &amp;quot;Run all the same services as your production stack, isolated but directly on your Mac. No Docker, no virtual machines, no hassles&amp;quot; is vague AF.</text></comment>