Craft CMS 5 Local Development with DDEV
When I started as a freelance developer, one of my first projects was to add a new product section in time for a conference. A day before the conference, I launch the new section and it’s completely broken because the MySQL version on their server was older than what I had installed on my Mac.
Nowadays, it’s much easier to control your local tech stack and make sure it closely resembles what’s running on production. In this article, we’ll walk through the steps of installing a brand new Craft CMS 5 site locally with DDEV.