local development environments
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Who Am I?
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Why this Topic?
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Developing on a live server
Editing theme files through WP admin
Not properly testing.
All Bad!
Possible Solutions!
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Prod should ONLY have working code!
Dev should be for everything else!
Good hosting providers should have this for you
Dev & Prod Servers!
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Easy Solution! Download and you have a local server
PHP, MySQL, Apache
XAMPP even has a WordPress installer
There are pitfalls…
MAMP | XAMPP
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Great place to keep code
Versioning
Automatic Backups
Fantastic for trying things out
Fantastic for Teams
Good hosts will let you deploy code from git!
Git | Github
Heavy Hitters
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Emulates Servers & Operating Systems
Basis for a lot more advanced tools like…
Virtual Box
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“Create and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable development environments.”
Vagrant
Set up a config file
Spin up a temp server
Tear it down when you’re done or need to start over
Resource: Varying Vagrant Vagrants
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VVV
“The primary goal of Varying Vagrant Vagrants (VVV) is to provide an approachable development environment that matches a typical production environment.”
Resource: Varying Vagrant Vagrants
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“A remote server automation and deployment tool written in Ruby"
Capistrano
Spin up local servers
Deploy from your machine to a server
Integrates with git
Complete Magic.
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Questions?