Lambo CLI for Quick Application Creation With Laravel and Valet

A new version of Laravel Lambo is available, written from scratch in PHP:

ICYDK, I built a tool called Lambo that gives "laravel new" superpowers–wrapping up many common tasks you take every time you start a new Laravel app.

After months (years?) of work, @ragus1975 & I have re-written in from scratch in PHP, & it's live now!https://t.co/TIKeuntus6

— Matt Stauffer (@stauffermatt) March 29, 2021

Lambo is a command-line tool that replaces the Laravel installer and takes care of everyday tasks when creating a Laravel app:

• Runs laravel new
• Initializes a git repo
• Replaces the .env database credentials with the default macOS MySQL credentials
• Replaces the APP_URL with the conventional Valet URL based on folder and Valet TLD
• Generates an app key
• Opens the project in your favorite editor
• Opens the project in the browser

You can also customize behavior by creating a config file and an "after" file to run additional commands after creating the project.

You install this project globally with composer, similar to other tools like the Laravel Installer:

composer global require tightenco/lambo:^1.0

The source code provides an excellent example of how to craft CLI applications using PHP and tools like Laravel, Symfony, and Laravel Zero.