Anvil

Introduction

A fast, native local development environment for macOS.

Anvil turns the folders on your Mac into running applications at local domains like myapp.test, with HTTPS, isolated language runtimes, databases and per-application settings. No containers, no virtual machines and no changes to your system packages.

Everything Anvil installs lives in ~/.anvil, and so do the caches of the tools it runs. The only system changes are the ones you approve (a resolver file for the local domain, a trusted HTTPS certificate, an optional login item), and anvil uninstall removes them.

Early development

The core works on macOS today. Expect breaking changes until 1.0.

Where to go next

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