About ServBay

ServBay is a one-stop development environment management tool designed to alleviate the burden of maintaining development environments. It enables developers to start coding within minutes without the hassle of installing and debugging development environments.

ServBay comes equipped with various development languages and database components, including development languages like PHP, Nodejs, and relational databases such as MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, as well as NoSQL databases like Redis, MongoDB, and Memcached. It also includes Caddy as a Web service and dnsmasq as a DNS service, along with essential developer packages such as the Mailpit mail server, MinIO storage service, RabbitMQ queue service, etc.

One of ServBay's standout features is providing a PKI system. Users can issue their own self-signed certificates and use non-existent domain names (Domain) and suffixes (TLDs) in local development. They can also create free SSL certificates for these domains, allowing developers to work in an encrypted HTTPS environment (e.g., https://api.servbay). This not only enhances the security of the development process but also significantly saves on investments in domain names and SSL certificates.

Moreover, ServBay provides a wealth of extension modules that developers can use without compiling themselves. For example, PHP's XDebug, IMAP, imagick, GD, Phalcon, swoole, scws, as well as PostgreSQL's postgis, pgrouting, pgvector, pg_jieba, zhparser, etc.

ServBay natively supports HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, along with the latest PHP 8.4 and Node.js 23.

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

For team managers, ServBay can quickly align the team's development environments, ensuring uniformity among team members and facilitating real-time sharing and collaboration on work outputs.

Finally, ServBay is a green software: it won't pollute your system. All packages and data are placed under /Applications/ServBay, making it easy to backup, migrate, and delete.