Setting up for local development

As we will start a site that requires PHP and MySQL to run, we need to set up a local development environment.

There are many ways that this can be achieved; the most favorable ones are Vagrant and Docker. Oh, and of course, if you're developing a Drupal site, Acquia DevDesktop is a good option as well. This book is highly focused on you developing Drupal on a macOS; however, there are other explanations on how to do this on Windows, and Acquia DevDesktop works on Windows. I will explain how to set up shell on Windows as well, but the only local tool I recommend for now is Acquia DevDesktop as I have had many issues with Vagrant on a Windows machine.