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Ask HN: What is a good local Web app development environment(node/mongo/redis)?

3 points by ricg ↗ HN
Instead of installing a full web app backend stack directly on my MacBook Pro, I'd much rather have it run inside a virtual machine on my local system to keep coding and testing seperatly.<p>I'd like to:<p>* keep everything local (so that it works without external network access)<p>* avoid cluttering my develpoment system with different installations of node/mongodb/etc.<p>* make it easy for new team members to get started developing in the exact same environment as the rest of the team<p>* protect my coding environment from experimental software or potential mistakes in scripts (imagine a "clean build" wiping out the entire system by accident)<p>What does your coding/local test environment look like? Any recommendations?

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herpyderp
based on your attempt at embedded HTML, I'd say just shut up and do it.
ricg
Very kind reply. Thank you very much.

I wrote the question right inside the HN form without any HTML tags. However, submitting failed once because the title had more than 80 characters. I assume that the tags were inserted automatically upon resubmitting with an edited title.

brandoncordell
I'm running my local development environment off of my MacBook Pro.

It consists of:

* Built in Apache/PHP, both configured how I like it

* MySQL installed via the DMG download from mysql.com

* Postgres installed via DMG download

* Redis, MongoDB, Node installed via Homebrew

* Git installed via Homebrew

* Ruby 1.8.7, 1.9.2, 1.9.3 installed and managed by RVM

* Rails and other gems installed and managed by RubyGems

* IE7, IE8, IE9 virtual machines installed via https://github.com/xdissent/ievms/

ricg
Thanks! A while back I came across a project that provided a simple command line API for installing various components. It was pretty much a wrapper for a virtual machine without having to worry about configuring one. I can't recall what project it was...