reeve – local web development stack manager

reeve is a local web development stack manager for Linux and macOS. It provides a common TUI and command-line interface for orchestrating web servers, PHP-FPM, supporting services, local DNS, and HTTPS.

Rather than bundling its own copies of these components, reeve manages software already installed on the host. On Linux, services are run through per-user systemd units.

One of its main design goals is letting different local sites use different PHP installations simultaneously. This avoids the usual constraint of switching a single globally active PHP installation whenever a project requires a different environment.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

• Manages Caddy, Apache, and nginx through a common interface.
• Assigns different PHP installations to individual virtual hosts using PHP-FPM.
• Configures PHP memory limits, upload limits, OPcache, FPM pools, timezone, and Xdebug.
• Can run several independently configured web servers on different ports.
• Manages MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, memcached, and Mailpit.
• Provides presets for Laravel, WordPress, Symfony, Grav, Drupal, and other project layouts.
• Supports Valet-style directory parking with automatic project discovery.
• Allows per-project document-root, preset, and environment-variable overrides.
• Creates trusted local HTTPS certificates using mkcert.
• Configures wildcard DNS for local development domains.
• Supports reverse-proxy virtual hosts for separate development servers.
• Offers a catch-all default site for unmatched local requests.
• Includes configuration validation, log viewing, and stack health diagnostics.
• Provides port-aware status reporting and detects processes occupying required ports.
• Includes a live traffic monitor showing request rates, status classes, latency, hosts, paths, and recent requests.

Website: github.com/yetidevworks/reeve
Support:
Developer: Andy Miller
License: MIT License

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