From the course: Getting Started as a Full-Stack Web Developer

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Develop locally with an AMP stack

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- [Narrator] So far in this course you've seen three ways to practice web development. You can change things in the browser as I'm doing here but those changes don't get saved anywhere. So they disappear when you reload the page. Then you saw how to use sandboxes like codepen.io. These are great, but limited. You can only have one HTML, CSS and JavaScript file at a time. And you can't run server side languages like PHP. You also saw me work on a remote server, connecting to it through a code editor. Web development done this way is permanent. And you can work on as many files as you like. And, the website that you create is available to the world. In short, this is real-world web development. But there is one more way to do real-world web development. That's by setting up a development environment on your desktop or laptop at home. This is what's called local development. For this, you need a so-called stack of software.…

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