{"id":2168,"date":"2024-05-14T16:10:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T22:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/?p=2168"},"modified":"2024-05-14T16:10:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T22:10:58","slug":"studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/studio\/","title":{"rendered":"Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s worth noting that Automattic shipped a thing called Studio<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n

… a fast, free way to develop locally with WordPress. Share your local sites with clients or colleagues and keep your local development process smooth and simple.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It’s amazing to me that WordPress got to be as dominant as it is without any real answer to “how do I run it locally?”<\/em> It’s non-trivial, as you need to run PHP, MySQL, and a web server, ideally in a way that mimics how your web host is doing it. I’ve been working with WordPress for a long time, and a lot of that time the answers to local dev environments have been some combination of expensive, janky, or complicated. Then tools like Local<\/a> and Laravel Forge<\/a> came along and made things better, but the more the merrier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Here are the docs<\/a>. It looks like it’s all tied into WordPress.com, and it sort of is, but you don’t have to host on WordPress.com for this to be useful. The tech behind it, as I understand it, is related to the Theme Playground<\/a> stuff, which is a lovely miracle of modern web development:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n