My Productive Space

Development
Lab

Most web applications will eventually live on a VPS (Virtual Private Server) or shared hosting or some Linux based system. So to get as close to the actual environment I’ve adopted to work completely in the cloud. On my cloud server I run the following

Apache HTTP Server
NginX Proxy Manager
MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis
PHP 7.4, PHP 8.1, Composer, Laravel, HeEPP
Node.js 16, NPM, Yarn
Docker, Portainer
VS Code Server, Cloud9 IDE, Hop

But what makes all the difference is:

– VS Code Sever runs on my server but is served in my browser.
– When I create a Docker container I add VS Code Server to my container to have window to underlying stack
– When I have to run commands on a terminal I use VS Code Server’s built in Terminal
– When I write documentation I use VS Code Sever

Deploying a website use to be filled with compatibility issues but by coding directly on the same environment as production and with the help of VS Code Server and Docker all of those problems disappear.