Chapter 3The Application Environment
This chapter will focus on the application environment. We’ll also discuss *AMP bundles such as XAMPP and why they’re a poor choice; production /development parity; and performance and debugging.
If you’re familiar with all these terms, feel free to skip this chapter.
Application Environments
The application environment is the term used to describe the environment your application can find itself in during various stages of its life cycle: the production environment, the development environment, and the staging environment.
The word environment refers to the hardware and software around your application; that is, everything used to power it.
Production
We’ll start with the most straightforward of environments: ...
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