Laravel + Valet workflow on Mac
Laravel developers on Mac often pair Valet or Herd for PHP with a pile of terminals for Vite, queue:work, Horizon, and the scheduler. Rig detects Composer and Laravel projects, links Valet *.test URLs, and runs sidecars from one board — with unified logs, port reclaim, and crash recovery. Tail storage/logs without hunting the filesystem. When Cursor or Claude is linked through the local MCP hub, agents see which artisan processes are healthy instead of guessing from a pasted stack trace. Keep Valet or Herd for PHP runtime and parked sites; add Rig when the morning boot is php artisan serve plus three other services. See the honest Rig vs Laravel Herd comparison for when to run both.