What is your local development environment?

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I use docker. Pretty much just copy/paste this docker-compose file into every new project which gives me a PHP/Apache server and an SMTP server for testing emails in a single command: docker-compose up

version: "3"

services:
  server:
    image: webdevops/php-apache-dev:7.2
    volumes:
      - ./site:/app
    ports:
      - "8080:80"

  maildev:
    image: djfarrelly/maildev

    ports:
      - "1080:80"
      - "1025:25"

I usually also run browser-sync.

browser-sync start --proxy localhost:8080 --files site/**/*

I’ve found this is a nice balance between simplicity and power. I don’t usually deal with grunt/gulp/webpack/sass/etc. Just a single hand written CSS file. Anything up to around 1,500 lines is pretty easy to maintain and sidesteps tons of unneeded complexity.

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