Easy and fast local Shopware 6 Development on Mac with Symfony CLI

I switched a month ago to macOS as of the M1 hype and wanted to try out the entire Apple ecosystem when I have an iPhone, iPad, and Mac. To get Shopware 6 running, I looked into some Guides for Mac and found out for myself: Why is this all so complicated, and why the hell is anyone using Docker for that. Docker on Mac I saw that many people are using Dockware for their Setup. (Dockware is a Docker image with all the Tools/Servers included to run Shopware 6). Docker runs not native on macOS and uses a Virtual machine to emulate a Linux kernel and all the containers below it. So obviously, the filesystem would be slow, and many people using, for this reason, SFTP or other tools like docker-sync to hold the same state between host and container. This is one of the most significant disadvantages for me. Like me, the dumb user has to run a tool to have this synchronized. I know that tools like PhpStorm can do this for me automatically, but when it doesn’t work, I will waste so much time to find this out. ...

February 27, 2022 · 3 min · Shyim