Freek Van der Herten has a post to his site sharing some Laravel Homestead tips you can use to optimize and customize your current Homestead installation.

Homestead is a pre-packaged Vagrant box that includes a good development environment. It was made and is maintained by Taylor Otwell, the creator of Laravel. In this post I’d like to share some tips regarding this box.

His list of tips includes:

• Map all sites at once
• Use a bash function to work with a globally installed homestead
• Map your dotfiles directory

Each tip comes with a bit of code/configuration changes to make to be able to use the functionality and configure the instance correctly.