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Pros of Local by Flywheel
Pros of Vagrant
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    Optimized for Wordpress development
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    Superior user interface
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    Faster setup
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    Development environments
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    Simple bootstraping
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    Free
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    Boxes
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    Provisioning
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    Portable
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    Synced folders
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    Reproducible
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    Ssh
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    Very flexible
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    Works well, can be replicated easily with other devs
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    Easy-to-share, easy-to-version dev configuration
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    Great
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    Just works
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    Quick way to get running
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    DRY - "Do Not Repeat Yourself"
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    Container Friendly
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    What is vagrant?
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    Good documentation

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Cons of Local by Flywheel
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      Can become v complex w prod. provisioner (Salt, etc.)
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      Multiple VMs quickly eat up disk space
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      Development environment that kills your battery

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    What is Local by Flywheel?

    It is a free local development environment designed to simplify the workflow of WordPress developers and designers. It makes creating a local WordPress site a light breeze. Any site created with it, will automatically have a self-signed certificate created.

    What is Vagrant?

    Vagrant provides the framework and configuration format to create and manage complete portable development environments. These development environments can live on your computer or in the cloud, and are portable between Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

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    What are some alternatives to Local by Flywheel and Vagrant?
    MAMP
    It can be installed under macOS and Windows with just a few clicks. It provides them with all the tools they need to run WordPress on their desktop PC for testing or development purposes, for example. It doesn't matter if you prefer Apache or Nginx or if you want to work with PHP, Python, Perl or Ruby.
    XAMPP
    It consists mainly of the Apache HTTP Server, MariaDB database, and interpreters for scripts written in the PHP and Perl programming languages.
    Bitnami
    Our library provides trusted virtual machines for every major development stack and open source server application, ready to run in your infrastructure.
    Docker
    The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere
    WordPress
    The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” — we’d love you to join the family.
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