EnvKit MCP server

EnvKit

Your local stack, one place.

A free local development environment for Windows and macOS: nginx or Apache, any PHP version, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis and trusted .test HTTPS, from one desktop app. A Laragon, XAMPP and Herd alternative.

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EnvKit runs your whole PHP and Node stack as native processes, managed from a tray app. No Docker, no WSL, no config files to hand-edit. Install it, pick your stack, and the first-run wizard ends with a working site open in your browser over HTTPS.

Free, with no limit on sites and no upgrade popups. Moving from another tool? See how it compares to Laragon, Herd and XAMPP.

Features

Sites, domains and HTTPS

certificate from EnvKit's local CA, trusted by your browser with no warnings.

• 🌐 Automatic .test domains with trusted HTTPS. Every site gets a hostname and a

Node, React, Next.js, Vite and Angular dev servers, all served at .test over HTTPS with hot reload and a live view of the dev server's output.

• 🧱 Any kind of project. Laravel, WordPress, Bedrock, CodeIgniter, plain PHP, and

repo, or link a folder you already have.

• 🚀 New projects in one step. Start a Laravel, WordPress or Node project, clone a Git

when you don't need it.

• 🔗 Site groups. Keep related sites together, and switch any site off or put it to sleep

link to show a client or test a webhook, with a Stop button when you're done.

• 🌍 Share a site publicly. One click gives a site a public https://.envkit.net

after a WordPress admin or Laravel form save.

• 🔄 Live reload. Save a file and the browser refreshes, including your other open tabs

PHP, Node and runtimes

from the others, with Xdebug switched on only when you want it.

• 🐘 Multiple PHP versions, per site. Run each site on its own PHP version, isolated

Settings.

• 🧰 Your choice of web server. nginx, Apache, Caddy or FrankenPHP, switched from

Python, Go and Deno are one click away.

• 📦 Node.js with nvm. Per-project versions from .nvmrc, plus npm, pnpm, Yarn and Bun.

Redis, PostgreSQL or Python by typing its number.

• 🧷 Custom versions. Install any version of MySQL/MariaDB, nginx, Node.js, MongoDB,

a per-developer envkit.local.json on top.

• 📄 envkit.json. Commit a project's required PHP extensions and php.ini values, with

Databases and services

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.