Welcome to the easiest way to install and develop Laravel framework on Windows

Laragon will help you simplify Laravel installation under 1 minute and development extremely fast and convenient

Current version: 0.5 150206(stable)
Apache 2.4.10, MySQL (MariaDB 10.0.15), PHP 5.6.3, Memcached 1.4.5, Redis 2.8.17, composer 1.0, XDebug

[Leo Khoa]

Why Laragon?

Installing Laravel on Windows is not a simple task. The normal way takes a lot of time and effort for beginners. There was a case that an experienced Laravel user took nearly a day to reinstall it:

I strongly concur. I was in the process of reinstalling Laravel on my Windows machine, and the update cost me nearly a days work until I figured it all out. The new method adds several layers of complexity for all windows users, and whats the point in a VM if I need PHP etc on the host machine? Might as well install xampp. Sorry, but this sucks (for me, a medium experienced windows/Laravel user)
Source: broszies - http://laravel.io/forum/11-17-2014-homestead-20-setup
With Laragon, you just run the auto setup and enjoy the fastest PHP & Laravel Development Environment less than 1 minute!!!

Laragon is very lightweight. It doesn’t require much memory and CPU time. The physical memory usage is typically 2MB to 3MB