# Develop and Deploy Laravel applications with Docker Compose — Create a Docker Compose configuration for development

> Here's the compose.yaml file to set up the development environment Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```yaml services: web: image: nginx:latest # Using the default Nginx image with custom configuration.

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Here's the compose.yaml file to set up the development environment

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```yaml
services:
  web:
    image: nginx:latest # Using the default Nginx image with custom configuration.
    volumes:
      # Mount the application code for live updates
      - ./:/var/www
      # Mount the Nginx configuration file
      - ./docker/development/nginx/nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf:ro
    ports:
      # Map port 80 inside the container to the port specified by 'NGINX_PORT' on the host machine
      - "80:80"
    environment:
      - NGINX_HOST=localhost
    networks:
      - laravel-development
    depends_on:
      php-fpm:
        condition: service_started # Wait for php-fpm to start

  php-fpm:
    # For the php-fpm service, we will use our common PHP-FPM Dockerfile with the development target
    build:
      context: .
      dockerfile: ./docker/common/php-fpm/Dockerfile
      target: development
      args:
        UID: ${UID:-1000}
        GID: ${GID:-1000}
        X
```

&gt; [!NOTE] &gt; Ensure you have an .env file at the root of your Laravel project with the necessary configurations. You can use the .env.example file as a template.

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