Local Web Development Environment 2024

Local Web Development Environments 2024 by Copilot

Intro

At the first, let me define what this environments for.

It could be:

• capable of managing multiple projects by itself
• it can handle up-to-date components
• it must be error free for create webapp prod versions

Component proposal

• Nginx vs Apache round
• PHP version
• Include db layer

Applicants

XAMPP for Windows

• ✅Good old friend with community support, predictable releases
• ✅with PHP 8.0 or PHP 8.1 or PHP 8.2
• ❌with phpMyAdmin can be replaced with the lightwave Adminer
• ✅ A Wordpress local installation is easier then ever
• ❌ Comes with Apache (v2.4.58) instead of Nginx
• ✅ Configured fake sendmail is a pro

WinNMP for Windows

• ✅ Comes with Nginx (v1.21.3), instead of Apache
• ❌ Latest version updated 2 years ago
• ❌ with PHP 7.x or PHP 8.0
• ✅ scaled project admin UI
• ✅ Adminer SQL admin by default
• ❌ no support for years, buggy…

Closure

I tried both of these environments, it is always important for me to have a popular, widely used environment. I prefer XAMPP for local dev, but it is also important that these environment naturally never be used for prod environments.