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0 pointsstevage1y ago0 comments

I always used to do that, using Vagrant. Mostly because it was the only practical way to maintain independent environments for the tools I was using.

These days I work in JavaScript and rarely have issues with project environments interfering with each other. I've gotten lazy and don't use VMs anymore.

In theory docker type setups could work but they just seem so much effort to learn and setup.

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smatija1y ago

Seconding vagrant - especially because it's the only reasonable way I found so far to test linux release on my windows rig (would prefer to dev on linux, but windows-only company is windows-only company).

Basically I put a Vagrantfile in src folder, then run docker compose with db, caddy, app server and other services inside it - then I forward ports 80 and 443 from vm and use localhost.whateverdomain.igot with self-signed cert on caddy (since https is just enough different than http that I otherwise get bitten by bugs every so often).

When I start a new project I can usually just copy the Vagrantfile with minimal changes.

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