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Have you worked on a project where different Developers are developing with different tools or have different versions of packages installed?<\/p>\n\n
In a development team, you want all environments to be consistent - including every Developer's local environment.<\/p>\n\n
You want to have every environment to be as close as possible to each other or, ideally, identical.<\/p>\n\n
You want everyone to use the same PHP version, the same web and database servers and the same packages installed.<\/p>\n\n
Once things start to diverge, bugs can be introduced - such as writing code locally in a newer version of PHP than what's on production.<\/p>\n\n
Ideally, you also want everything to be reproducible with locked dependencies and generate the same outcome regardless of when the commands are run.<\/p>\n\n