Today I Learned - Rocky Kev

TIL how amazing Devilbox is

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TAGS: php wordpress

I've been using Devilbox for a full year now, and I have officially installed it on:

And it's so freakin' dope.

One of the major issues with using something like MAMP is that your dependencies may cause some goofy conflict. Since Devilbox is using Docker containers to isolate everything, you can just focus on writing code, rather than wondering if it'll work on X platform.

Overall, if you can get Docker Desktop to work on your Win/Mac, then the rest of the installation is smooth sailing!
For those with Linux, you may have to do a lot more setup.

Check it out:
http://devilbox.org/

And of course, for WordPress development, you can always use Local By Flywheel.

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