[Make sure you check out Part 2 here!]
For many, developing sites and applications for the web usually consists of editing files on the local machine, uploading them to the server, testing it out in a browser, and repeating the process until all the desired changes are in place.
Yep – it’s tedious, but it doesn’t have to be like this. It’s totally possible to develop entire projects locally prior to deploying them. Personally, I am all for having the development environment mirror the production system as much as possible. This helps not only improve development time, but also helps to reduce the number of issues that may crop up when the project launches.
Admittedly, configurations will vary based on what languages and platform you’ve chosen for your project, but I know many in the 8BIT Community use a combination of PHP, MySQL, and the usual client-side languages.
In this series, I’ll be covering how to install and configure a local development environment (regardless of your operating system), then we’ll take a look and installing a copy of WordPress for local development.
Okay, cool. Let’s do this.
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