About ServBay

ServBay is an all-in-one development environment management tool designed to ease the burden of maintaining development environments. It allows developers to start coding within minutes without spending time installing and debugging the development environment.

ServBay includes various development languages and database components, such as PHP, Nodejs, and relational databases like MariaDB (MySQL) and PostgreSQL. Additionally, it supports NoSQL databases like Redis and Memcached. It also includes Caddy for Web services, and dnsmasq for DNS services, along with essential developer suites like email services, storage services, and queue services.

A significant feature of ServBay is its support for using nonexistent domains and TLDs in local development, and creating free SSL certificates for these domains. This enables developers to work in an encrypted HTTPS environment (e.g., https://api.servbay), enhancing the security of the development process while significantly saving on domain and SSL certificate costs.

Moreover, ServBay provides a wealth of extension modules that developers can use without self-compiling. Examples include XDebug, IMAP, imagick, GD, Phalcon, swoole, scws for PHP, and PostgreSQL extensions like postgis, pgrouting, pgvector, pg_jieba, and zhparser.

ServBay natively supports HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, as well as the latest PHP 8.4.

ServBay is equipped with a powerful management interface (GUI), allowing developers to quickly install, upgrade, and switch between different versions of services. With modular combinations, developers can stack and replace various services like building Lego blocks, simulating diverse development environments to meet rapid development needs.

For team managers, ServBay can quickly align the team's development environment, ensuring team members work in a unified environment and share and collaborate on work results in real-time.

Finally, ServBay is a green software that won't clutter your system. All software packages and data are placed under /Applications/ServBay, making it easy to back up, transfer, and delete.