Best Practice Web Development Environment for OSX

Ekim · 13 Feb 2016 at 18:53

What setups does everyone employ?

I am looking on working on a new web site and don't have anything set up on my laptop at the moment so would be good to get a proper set up going. I've read up on lots of different options and have used Vagrant in the past.

Not sure what I will be developing in - either PHP or Python.

Interested to see what everyone else uses.

LazyManc · 13 Feb 2016 at 21:37

If you already know Linux then stick with Vagrant, saves messing around with the host system and possibly breaking something that will be a pain to recover from. If you break a guest VM then you can just throw it away and rebuild a fresh one in a few minutes.

If you go for PHP then you can get a full dev environment set up from scratch in about 20 mins using https://puphpet.com. Just pick your setup (apache vs nginx, php version, etc). It will build a .vagrantfile and puppet manifest for you that you download as a zipfile and then extract to your project dir.

Deleted member 77746 · 14 Feb 2016 at 14:48

I would say MAMP. Works on Apache 2 and SQL.

iKettles · 15 Feb 2016 at 08:56

Vagrant and Chef are nice for when you need a consistent, redeployable environment with multiple people working on one project. It's also really helpful if you're using funky versions of dependencies.

Just for a personal machine, an Apache/nginx stack is easy enough to setup on newer versions of OSX.

I use NodeJS with Mongo which is a breeze to setup