# Laravel Valet

Now this is the holy grail, that binds everything together.

I recommend reading the official documentation (opens new window) - but i've included the install procedure here too.

Before we install valet, open up ~/.zshrc in your editor of choice.

Add this line to it:

export PATH=$PATH:~/.composer/vendor/bin

This is required because otherwise we wouldn't be able to call global composer binaries.

Close your terminal/iTerm2 and open it again. Now we'll install valet:

composer global require laravel/valet

To verify everything went smooth, type valet in your terminal - and you should see something similar to this:

❯ valet
Laravel Valet 2.11.0
......

# Setup

Using the simple command:

valet install

To make development easier, we'll add a special case valet in sudoers. To do that, enter:

valet trust

It will ask you for your password. It's safe to enter.

Now you're ready to develop on CourseWire.

Clone the project to your directory of choice (i like using ~/dev/projects/coursewire)

Enter the directory and run the following commands:

cd ~/dev/projects/coursewire
valet link
valet secure
docker-compose up -d

What you just did, was telling valet to set up a nginx host - listening on coursewire.test, and secure it with a self-signed certificate.

The docker-compose command started up all the infrastructure components.

So now, you're ready to work on the project. I hope you've learnt something.