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title: 16 reasons DDEV will be your new favorite development environment
date: 2022-12-08T00:27:00+00:00
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# 16 Reasons DDEV Will Be Your New Favorite Development Environment

Posted on 08th December, 2022

DDEV is a container-based local development environment. Randy Fay, the creator, gives a [few reasons](https://opensource.com/article/22/12/ddev) to try it. Not noted in the article, but it has explicit support for Craft CMS.

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