That doesn't really scale to a team though, esp for tools that have a common configuration (e.g. localhost ports). Some sort of tooling to point "this machine

That doesn't really scale to a team though, esp for tools that have a common configuration (e.g. localhost ports). Some sort of tooling to point "this machine to this VM" becomes needed. Then for full stack development it is even harder, as the app has to have this endpoint injected into it. It is all possible, just a pain. Writing a mobile app (https only!) that talks to a service I am writing has a rather annoying set of minimal requirements to get up and running. (This may be why Firebase Functions are so popular, super easy to go from nothing to deployed endpoints in just a few minutes.)