Tired of slow Docker & XAMPP? I built a blazing-fast native local dev environment with built-in FTP/SSH deployments 🚀

Hi DEV community! 👋 If you do any sort of PHP, WordPress, or Laravel development, you probably know the struggle of setting up a good local environment. For a long time, I was stuck in a frustrating loop: Docker: Great for production parity, but the file I/O performance on macOS is notoriously sluggish. Waiting seconds for a simple page reload breaks the flow. XAMPP / MAMP: Feels like a relic from the past. Manually editing httpd-vhosts.conf and hosts files every time you want a new .local domain is exhausting. Modern GUI Tools: Many of them are incredibly resource-heavy, eating up hundreds of megabytes of RAM just sitting in the background. And the biggest pain point? Deployment. For small to medium agency projects or freelance gigs, setting up a full CI/CD pipeline is often overkill. But manually dragging and dropping folders via FileZilla is terrifying and error-prone. I wanted a frictionless workspace. So, I built LPStack. ✨ Enter LPStack LPStack is a completely native, ultra-light