vagrant - When should I execute commands on my host OS and when should I execute commands on my Laravel Homestead virtual machine?

Question

I am using Laravel Homestead and Vagrant to develop Laravel-applications and I'm lost in when to execute commands on my host OS and when to execute commands on my virtual machine (Laravel Homestead).

Recently I tried to install all the standard-dependencies of my fresh Laravel-project with NPM by executing the "npm install"-command on my Laravel Homestead virtual machine and it didn't allow me to do by giving me errors after errors about NPM not being able to find a file.

When I searched on how to fix it I saw a post from someone on this forum which told to execute "npm install" on the host OS.

When I did that, it worked but later i stumbled over another problem where I wanted to create a model by using the command "php artisan make:model".

I executed this command on my host OS and it didn't work but it did work on my virtual machine.

Every answer is appreciated!

Answer 1

Homestead is an isolated environment and everything should be executed inside VM and in normal circumstances, everything should be working.

simply imagine that you are using remote-VM over ssh without sync. Where you would run your commands? The same rule applies to local-VM.