Building a better development environment

Development environments come in different flavors. There are ad hoc environment built out of tools picked up along the way, and there are packaged development environments provided by platform vendors. Most developers have many of these solutions installed. These are great, but each developer is left to:

• Build their own workflow
• Identify a path to integrating new tools
• Avoid new tools if they can't be integrated
• Reinvent their environment for new code-bases (i.e. non-Drupal)

To answer my own frustrations with these problems, I wrote Hedron. Hedron is an open source, php & docker-compose based development environment. It caters to Drupal developers with a set of plugins designed to make Drupal development easier, while opening the door to building any web application. Hedron features:

• Git-based on-demand-environments via branching
• Total control over server architecture via Docker-Compose
• PHP Plugin based workflow controls per project type
• Much more.

• Dissatisfied with your dev environment
• Playing with Docker or Docker-Compose
• A Control Freak ;-)

An introduction to a powerful set of tools that are easy to install and use today, and expandable for your needs tomorrow.