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Laravel Herd Integration

Tinkerwell integrates deeply with Laravel Herd and is the perfect companion for developers on the Mac. It supports PHP binaries installed via Herd and respects the configuration of custom settings of your php.ini files.

Global shortcuts
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Laravel Herd remembers the latest site that you serve when you open it in your browser. This is useful if you want to start a new tinker session for this site and you can do that by configuring a global shortcut within Herd. When you press this shortcut, Tinkerwell opens a new tab with the site and you can start tinkering right away.

Shortcut settings of Laravel Herd

Herd Sites
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If you don't feel like using the shortcut or can't remember it, you can also open the list of sites in Herd and access Tinkerwell from there. Simply click the Tinkerwell icon in the actions column and Tinkerwell opens a new tab with the site.

Sites settings of Laravel Herd

Herd CLI
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When you don't feel like pressing the global shortcut, you can also open the current directory of your terminal as a Tinkerwell project. Simply type herd tinker and Tinkerwell opens magically.

The herd tinker command features an optional site argument and you can start your tinker session by typing herd tinker --site=tinkerwell.app.test in your terminal – without opening the directory first.

Tinkerwell - Trusted by the best.

"Tinkerwell is the perfect tool to explore ideas in code in a non-destructive way. It's like a creative coding playground. I use it almost daily."

Bastian Allgeier, Founder of Kirby CMS
Bastian Allgeier
Founder of Kirby CMS

"Testing code, writing one-off scripts, or just playing with random logic is far easier with Tinkerwell. Its one of the best purchases I've made in my career."

Luke Hebblethwaite, Developer
Luke Hebblethwaite
Developer

Tinkerwell: The PHP Scratchpad

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