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DDEV vs XAMPP

A side-by-side look at DDEV and XAMPP. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

DDEV

DDEV

Development

DDEV is a local development environment and tooling for PHP developers to develop and test code on their own system. It packages docker containers for web and database services to closely resemble a live server.

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XAMPP

XAMPP

Development

XAMPP is an open-source web server solution stack package developed by Apache Friends, consisting mainly of the Apache HTTP Server, MySQL database, and interpreters for scripts written in the PHP and Perl programming languages.

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