Grow Your Site Locally With Lando
Suppose you just landed a Drupal web development job and you are ready to set up a local version of their site with a server. What tool to choose?
Like WordPress, Drupal is a web-based content management system that uses a database. So to run it locally, you need a web server, a database server, and PHP.
Enter Lando, a development tool build by the digital agency known as Tandem. I started using Lando routinely back in March and have found that it works quite well for my local Drupal environment.
- If you are building in Drupal, know that Lando can handle Drupal versions 6 through 9.
- And if you do not build in Drupal, know that it also supports a range of other platforms, such as WordPress and Joomla.
Lando and the command line
One important thing to know about Lando is that its default state is to be used via the command-line interface. Now I did run across Lando UI in the Visual Studio Marketplace, which seems to provide more of a graphical experience — but to be candid, I have not tried it, and I would just as soon stick with the command line.
Lando, Docker, and containers
Lando is built on top of another tool known as Docker. When you download Lando, it will also pull…
