Trellis vs MAMP

Trellis VVV MAMP
Pro
Price Free Free $59.00
Vagrant box for local development ✅ ✅ ❌
WP-CLI ✅ ✅ ❌
PHP 7.1 ✅ ❌ ❌
Extendable provisioning ✅ ❌ ❌
Production/remote servers ✅ ❌ ❌
Development & production parity ✅ ❌ ❌
Ready for WordPress core development ❌ ✅ ❌
Integrated database backups ❌ ✅ ❌
Let’s Encrypt support ✅ ❌ ❌
A+ SSL support ✅ ❌ ❌
Complete control over environments ✅ ❌ ❌
phpMyAdmin ❌ ✅ ✅

Most people in the WordPress world probably get started off with MAMP or WAMP. The issue with that is that they can be extremely brittle, for one thing.

You’re also tied to the versions of the software that MAMP pre-includes. They might upgrade to newer versions, such as PHP 5.6, but the problem is that your local MAMP install is vastly different from your shared host, or your VPS, or your dedicated server.

You can’t really get any more different than those two environments — your host machine with MAMP, and a remote server with whatever else is on there. That big gap is what can cause problems when you actually deploy. Or something goes wrong on your production server and you can’t replicate it on your local machine, or vice versa.

Scott Walkinshaw on Ep0 of Roots Radio

If you have to pass off a project to someone else, it’s way easier just to say “here is a repository, it contains all of the configuration necessary to get a vagrant virtual machine up and running with one command”

Austin Pray on Ep0 of Roots Radio