Stop Fighting Your Computer: a Zero-to-Hero Guide to Local Dev with DDEV

Session Category Beginner Track Audience All Attendees

Are you still spending more time fixing your local environment than actually building Drupal sites? Does "it works on my machine" sound like a scary phrase to your team?

In this session, we will dive into modern local development using DDEV. We will move past the basics of installation and explore how to create a consistent, reproducible, and fast development workflow that mirrors production.

We will cover:

  • The Quickstart: Spinning up a Drupal 10/11 site in under 5 minutes.
  • Tooling Integration: Using Composer, Drush, and Xdebug without installing them on your host machine.
  • Team Consistency: How to share configuration files so every developer on your team has the exact same environment.
  • Performance: Tips for making Docker and DDEV run faster on Mac, Windows, and Linux.

Whether you are a solo freelancer or part of a large agency, this session will help you reclaim your time and focus on what matters: writing code.

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