php ships with server. Though frankly everyone would use XAMPP or WAMP or MAMP, for their development to mimic the production environment closer. It costs 3 bu

php ships with server. Though frankly everyone would use XAMPP or WAMP or MAMP, for their development to mimic the production environment closer. It costs 3 bucks for host gator, hmm maybe 4, but heroku is very opinionated on how you should structure your project.