Today I am extremely excited to announce https://herd.laravel.com, the project that we've been working on over the last couple months in partnership with https://laravel.com. Herd includes everything you need to get started with Laravel development, including PHP (versions 7.4 up to 8.3 Alpha), https://www.nginx.com/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnsmasq.
Not only does this mean that Herd does not require any additional dependencies on your computer, but the statically compiled PHP binaries also end up being up to 100% faster than traditional PHP versions installed via Homebrew. The statically compiled PHP binaries result in PHP itself and all of its extensions being compiled into a single binary file.
static-cli-builder is a PHP project that allows you to compile PHP and/or FPM statically and supports a of PHP packages.