6/25/2023 0 Comments Vagrant story scriptAnd believe me, some projects are gigabytes of data. Taking upwards of twenty to thirty minutes to either up or halt the VM is just absolutely absurd! If I wanted to take my laptop somewhere and work (in sunlight), I was forced to copy the required databases and files/Git to the laptop just to go somewhere. However, over time, with more projects, Vagrant started to slow down. Vagrant’s DemiseĮarlier this year, PHPStorm released an update that allowed project-level interpreters, as well as the ability to use PHPcs remotely, which is absolutely amazing! For my day-to-day, I actually set up Vagrant as a remote interpreter, set it to use the PHPcs installed there, and it pretty much worked as intended. Now, I only needed to run one nifty little command vv create and I was up in just a few minutes.Ībout a year after installing and using Vagrant regularly for my day-to-day environments, I’m eternally grateful for the speed with which it sets up projects and its simplicity–no more juggling vHost files/settings or setting up SQL databases! Overall, I was happy in my ignorance regarding how to actually do most of this myself. After about a two hour session with Parbs on getting set up, it was installed, and I was so happy. I decided on a whim to install it and give it a go. I thought, “Hmm, so what is this Vagrant?” With Xampp, I had to edit the vhosts file, create a database, and download and install WordPress by hand any time I wanted to create a new site.įor awhile it worked fine, but then came my never-ending thirst for knowledge. For the longest time, Vagrant fans preached to me it’s SO MUCH BETTER they said, and indeed it was. The Vagrant StoryĬoming from Xampp, Vagrant is a godsend, especially for us non-Linux folks using Windows. Xampp for me was my go-to development environment for the longest time considering its ease of setup (just download a zip file) and overall reliability. Upon starting with WDS I was actually using Xampp, since I’m a Windows guy. However, my coding application isn’t all that evolved. It wasn’t until about a year before WDS that I started using Sublime 2, and slowly evolved into using PHPStorm, which I now use daily. In the beginning, I was actually using direct FTP before I had heard of GIT or any sort of version control. I started out by using Dreamweaver for FTP and syntax highlighting, this is back when they were owned by Macromedia. When you start developing, you’ll quickly realize you need to get some sort of development environment up. However, there comes a turning point in every developer’s life where he/she must evolve, or, in some cases, devolve. Vagrant is an awesome tool and works really well–for most applications. At WDS, a LOT of our peeps use Vagrant for their day-to-day activities, and chances are you’ve seen Brad Parbs‘ VV at some point, or may be using it right now.
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