The Workshop: PHP Development with Homestead in WSL

We've spent the past two months talking about Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) in Windows 10 and how to customize it to serve as a PHP development environment. While functional, our environment lacked a fair bit of polish. In the nearly four years that I've been working on and maintaining Laravel Homestead, I've spent much of that time adding functionality and polish to the Laravel focused Vagrant development environment. Homestead is a fantastic PHP development environment that provides many tools PHP developers have come to expect: NGINX and Apache support, easy access to multiple PHP versions, MySQL and PostgreSQL databases, and an easy "reset" method in case something goes wrong you can quickly get back to a known state. This month we're going to explore the ongoing Homestead development to bring some of the polish and ease of use from Homestead to WSL.