Local Web Development With DDEV Explained: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Local Web Development With DDEV

by Michael Anello

DDEV-Local is a revolutionary tool for local web development. It's much better than WAMP, MAMP and other tools you've used in the past.DDEV-Local is an open-source local development environment for PHP-based projects. It provides a robust and flexible local development setup for platforms such as Drupal, WordPress, and TYPO3.Key Features Constantly updated, the material in Local Web Development With DDEV Explained is always current.Clear You will follow plain English, clear visuals and enjoyable step-by-step instructions.What You'll LearnMike teaches Drupal and professional web development. During those classes, he teaches students how to set up and use a local development environment for their projects. Until last year, he based those lessons on an old-school, all-in-one AMP stack.However, those old stacks, such as WAMP and MAMP, are increasingly incompatible with modern web development techniques.Mike spent about a year looking for an alternative. During his search, one tool rose to the DDEV-Local. Mike fell in love with using this new tool. He updated his training classes to use DDEV-Local and hasn't looked back since.DDEV-Local uses Docker, a tool that allows developers to package up services in containers. The power behind Docker is that it provides a hardware-independent way of running containers, so that you can run any Docker container on any hardware that supports Docker. In a typical DDEV-Local scenario, there is a web server container, a database server container, and a database administration container. DDEV-Local provides you with reliable Docker containers and removes some of Docker's complexities.All-in-all, DDEV-Local provides an easy-to-use, flexible, and powerful local development environment. In this short but concise book, you are going to master the key ideas behind DDEV-Local.Table of ContentsDDEV-Local ExplainedIntroducing Our Web Development ProblemProfessional Development Workflows ExplainedThe Basics of DDEV-Local ExplainedInstalling a New Drupal Site in DDEV-Local ExplainedInstalling a New WordPress Site in DDEV-Local ExplainedCloning an Existing Drupal Site to DDEV-Local ExplainedCloning an Existing WordPress Site to DDEV-Local ExplainedIntegrating DDEV-Local with a Hosting ProviderUsing the Most Common DDEV-Local CommandsExtending DDEV-Local Commands ExplainedUseful DDEV-Local Tips and TricksIntegrating Apache Solr with Drupal and DDEV-Local ExplainedUsing DDEV Local with Xdebug and PhpStorm ExplainedWhat's Next?

202 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 7, 2018