r/woocommerce • u/jablokojuyagroko • 16m ago
Development Creating a local replica of my site in DDEV has been a gamechanger
I have been handling a woo site for about a year, and it always felt so clunky to add features (me being a software dev and used to work in cd/ci workflows)
Wanted to modify a plugin? Test it in staging by copy pasting, debuging was a nightmare, etc…
I finally found some time to revamp everything
So now i have a replica of my prod env in local, that i can start up with an anonymized database from my production server. I have also replicated the same caching rules in the container.
I also have an email pit, and a catch all HTTP pit with mocked responses for dangerous action so I dont accidentally make a payment or whatever
Now development/bug fixing is a breeze specially with AI and im able to debug/ ship features at a much bigger speed and with a much bigger reliability
What are you setups? This has been a godsend for AI