Web developers - Is it better to do development on your local machine or on a remote host?

Question

What are the pro/cons of doing web development on your local machine rather than on a centralized development server? For those that do dev on your local machine, how do you kee

Answer 1

I think it's best to have a local setup that is entirely under your control during development in order to ensure that changes made by other developers do not interfere with your own. I have a development and test environment setup locally so I can perform both tasks without needing to take other developers into account. I continually run my tests as I code using autotest, meaning I can be sure that my code is correct and satisfies the correct specification.

After the code base is in order, I deploy to a staging server (which is an environment that is as close to production as possible), and rerun the tests. We also use our stage to run load testing and do user testing.