You can edit and browse on your host VM. Just adjust the VM's network settings and use a shared host-guest folder for the code (what exactly this ends up being

You can edit and browse on your host VM. Just adjust the VM's network settings and use a shared host-guest folder for the code (what exactly this ends up being varies based on the virtualization). You really can make it a near exact match for a local development environment. Bridge your ports to your expected ones on the host machine, share the code folders, and SSH in if you need to punt a dev server when you make changes (or set your Editor/IDE up to do that for you). Browser can still point at local:8000 or whatever you expect.