Create a WordPress and WooCommerce development environment with the help of Valet.

1. Install or update Homebrew
2. Run the following commands

brew tap woocommerce/woovalet [email protected]:rrennick/woovalet.git
brew install woocommerce/woovalet/woovalet

For now, WooCommerce Valet has just one command: woovalet.

The woovalet command will:

1. ask for the name of your project, enter something like myproject, defaults to woocommerce
2. ask for your MySQL/MariaDB root password (if you haven't set a password leave this blank)
3. download WordPress into the directory ~/Sites/myproject
4. setup the database called myproject & configure the WordPress installation
5. create a new user with your MacOS username and password of password
6. remove the default WordPress plugins
7. configure myproject.localhost to run using TLS/SSL
8. clone the WooCommerce git repository
9. activate the WooCommerce plugin
10. installs a number of plugins useful for development
11. install and activate the Storefront theme
12. install WooCommerce dummy data for test products

This script will change your Valet configuration to serve projects using .localhost, a reserved top level domain for development, as the top level domain, instead of the default .dev, which is not a reserved TLD.

The script also uses ~/Sites as a Valet project directory, as per the Valet installation instructions.

WooCommerce Valet installs the development version of WooCommerce from its GitHub repository.

When new versions of WooCommerce are released, its recommended you update WooCommerce via Git from the command line, rather than the WordPress Plugins administration screen. Using the latter will overwrite the development version with the publicly released version which does not have the /tests/ directory necessary for running unit tests.