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What’s so different about DDEV? It’s a container-based local web development environment. Here are a few reasons you should give it a try.
In 2022, you have a wide variety of local web development environments to choose from, whether you’re a designer, developer, tester, or any kind of open source contributor. Because most of the tools and platforms contributors use happen to run on many different operating systems, you probably even have the choice of constructing your own environment. I’m the maintainer of DDEV, an open source tool for launching local PHP, Node.js, and HTML/JS development environments in minutes. Here are 15 reasons I think you’ll like it for your development environment.
1. Cross-platform …