
Want the freedom to customize the experience to my liking. I spend a lot of time in my dev environment, so I Products in this space, but self-hosting with Render gives me moreįlexibility and control. With these benefits in mind, I endeavored to set up a hosted dev environment for The environment’s definitionĬan be version controlled, meaning changes undergo code review. It becomes easier to onboard new teammates, maintain devĭependencies, and share productivity improvements. Without needing to use ngrok, and let trusted collaborators take yourįor web development teams, having standardized dev environments can increase This means you can have moreĬonfidence in tests that run in dev, and will tend to have fewer unwanted Gap between your dev and production environments. Practically infinite compute and storage.

Get on-demand access to containers or virtual machines running any version ofĪny operating system, loaded with whatever packages you need, and backed by My settings.json file for VS Codeįor web developers, hosted dev environments have additional benefits. And I’ve spentĪ lot of time configuring it to my liking. IĬan’t get work done unless I’m on my own machine, and I can’t easily share orĭuplicate my environment after I’ve configured it to my liking.

Still missing out on the benefits we’ve come to expect from modern web apps. Those bytes never see the inside of a fiber-optic cable,Īt least not until I push my changes to GitHub. The work I do in dev is saved not to the cloud, but to But there is a notable exception: myĭevelopment environment. We use Slack for chat, Linearįor issue tracking, Slab for knowledge sharing, and GitHub for change

At Render, most of the apps we use are web apps.
