1
Install Laravel Herd
We recommend installing Laravel Herd, a free local development environment for
PHP Laravel. It’s a great way to get started with Laravel development and is the perfect environment for
contributing to Cachet.Herd will install PHP, Composer and NPM for you. You can manage each version through the Herd UI.
2
Clone Cachet's Core
The majority of development is done in the We recommend cloning the repository into a directory named
cachethq/core
repository.
You’ll need to clone this repository to your local machine.cachet-core
to keep things organized.3
Install Dependencies
Once you’ve cloned the repository, you’ll need to install the dependencies.
4
Running Cachet
With dependencies installed, you can now run Cachet using SQLite.Your local Cachet instance will now be accessible on
127.0.0.1:8000
. The terminal will include output for:- Vite assets
- Laravel logs
- Laravel queue