This tutorial explains how to create a shorcut in your terminal to allow you to start your Laravel project with sail up command instead of ./vendor/bin/sail up using .bashrc in MacOS.

There are only 2 little steps!

Before starting

First, you need to open your terminal. Simple, isn't ? 😂

Step 1

In your terminal, run this to open your .bash_profile file :

nano ~/.bash_profile

And paste this :

if [ -r ~/.bashrc ]; then
   source ~/.bashrc
fi

Exit and save the modification.

Step 2

Still in your terminal, run this to open your .bashrc file :

nano ~/.bashrc

And paste this :

alias sail='bash vendor/bin/sail'

Exit and save the modification.

The final word 💬

Here we go, you can now open any Laravel project using Sail and write the following command to start it :

sail up

Personally, I'm using the Docker's detached mode to free my terminal and be able to use it directly. This consists of adding -d like this :

sail up -d

❓ Notice that I showed 2 steps but depending on your OS environment, you could probably skip the step 1.

Thanks for reading this little tip, feel free to add a comment to share your opinions! 😀☕