My projects all use DDEV for local development. Regarding end-to-end testing, as part of my continuous integration process, I also use DDEV! This way, my scripts for running Cypress are the same locally and in my CI. Leveraging DDEV in your CI is especially useful if your project has multiple domains, which is harder to replicate using good old php -S 127.0.0.1:8080 -t web. Recently I wanted to speed up my end-to-end tests by avoiding full site installs for each job. A full site install could take a few minutes with the default content creation. But I knew a database restore could take a fraction of that time. Luckily, DDEV provides snapshots that can be used to restore your environment from a backup!
The approach was this:
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