# Technical Documentation: leokhoa/laragon

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# Laragon - The Dev Environment for Entrepreneurs

## What is Laragon?

Laragon is a portable, isolated, fast & powerful universal development environment for PHP, Node.js, Python. It is fast, lightweight, easy-to-use and easy-to-extend.

Laragon is great for building and managing modern web applications. It is focused on performance  - designed around stability, simplicity, flexibility and freedom.

Laragon is very lightweight and will stay as lean as possible. The core binary itself is less than 6MB and uses around 4MB - 10MB RAM when running.

Laragon doesn't use Windows services. It has its own `service orchestration` which manages services asynchronously and non-blocking so you'll find things run fast & smoothly with Laragon.

Enjoy!

> Starting with Laragon 7.x, a license is required to use Laragon. For more details, visit <https://laragon.lemonsqueezy.com/>.

## Features

- **Pretty URLs**
  Use `app.test` instead of `localhost/app`.
- **Portable**
  You can move Laragon folder around (to another disks, to another laptops, sync to Cloud,...) without any worries.
- **Isolated**
  Laragon has an isolated environment with your OS - it will keep your system clean.
- **Easy Operation**
  Unlike others which pre-config for you, Laragon **`auto-configs`** all the complicated things. That way you can add another versions of PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, Go, Apache, Nginx, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB,... effortlessly.
- **Modern & Powerful**
  Laragon comes with a modern architecture which is suitable to build modern web apps. You can work with both Apache & Nginx as they are fully-managed.
  Also, Laragon makes things a lot easier:
  - Wanna have a Wordpress CMS? Just 1 click.
  - Wanna show your local project to customers? Just 1 click.
  - Wanna enable/disable a PHP extension? Just 1 click.



*Laragon is trully isolated & portable. However, you may need to use the installer as it will detect and install missing run-time components that are required to run C++ applications built using Visual Studio such as `PHP, Apache` for you.*


## How fast?
Laragon starts instantly. You can set Laragon autorun when Windows starts. When running, Laragon uses just a little amount of your RAM.
Here is the GUI of Laragon:


## How easy?
- Laragon is very easy to install & upgrade. Just download the latest version and click `Next, Next, Next...`
- Laragon is very easy to use. Most of the time it will work out-of-the-box without the need to touch any configuration files.
- Laragon is very easy to extend. You can add other services to your current stack by just extracting them to `Laragon's bin` folder.

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