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Setting up a local dev environment

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Setting up a local dev environment

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- [Instructor] Once you're ready to start doing development it's best to do it on something other than your live site. We don't want to break a site that people are actively visiting. That's where a local development environment comes in. This is a hosting environment that runs only on your computer, meaning you're the only one who can access it. Here you can code and experiment with other changes without worrying about breaking your live site. In the Creating a Child Theme workflow we go through actually installing Local by Flywheel, my recommended tool for local development. So if you'd like step by step instructions on how to do that, you can. But there are a few other tools you should have when you're doing full scale development. One is version control, which we'll look at later. The other is a good coding environment. There's lots to choose from, including Atom, and my personal favorite, VS Code. But you might also…

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