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When you work in multiple projects with different requirements this kind of tools are a godsend.

• ertian 4y ago
  ...Over time, too. This wouldn't be useful for starting up a new PHP project. Instead, it'd be great for situations where you've got a dozen different projects that you work on every few months to a year, all with different dependencies and settings, services (dbs, kv stores, whatever), env vars, and so on. I've definitely spent a few hours, when going back to a project after a few months, just trying to remember exactly what the environmental assumptions and requirements are. Being able to just pop straight back into development without any of that is amazing.
  • mastazi 4y ago
    > This wouldn't be useful for starting up a new PHP project. Having to do the infra-as-code of a system that didn't have it and is already live is a royal pain. If you foresee you will end up having any level of complexity, you actually save time doing it from the beginning. It's just a way of avoiding tech debt down the line.
    • 8n4vidtmkvmk 4y ago
      live and still functioning doesn't sound too bad to package up... just copy down all the configs
      • rgoulter 4y ago
        You've got to make sure you don't miss anything important, as well as being able to distinguish between details which are incidental, vs details which are deliberate. Which could vary from "very easy" to "does anyone know who put this file there, and why, 9 months ago?".