Working in a local environment (ie: directly on your own computer) is a standard approach when building WordPress themes and plugins. It saves you from breaking a live site, while speeding up the process by reducing requests to the web. It does have one downside though; you can only access your local environment locally, on your system. Testing simultaneously on other devices and systems you might
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