Weekly Dev Tips

Hi and welcome back to Weekly Dev Tips. I’m your host Steve Smith, aka Ardalis. This is episode 56, on the importance of having a simple way to build, test, and run your application locally. One Step Build Test Run This week's tip is brought to you by devBetter.com. Sponsor - devBetter Group Career Coaching for Developers Need to level up your career? Looking for a mentor or a the support of some motivated, tech-savvy peers? devBetter is a group coaching program I started last year. We meet weekly for group Q&A sessions and have an ongoing private Slack channel the rest of the week. I offer advice, networking opportunities, coding exercises, marketing and branding tips, and occasional assignments to help members improve. Interested? Check it out at devBetter.com. Show Notes / Transcript I've worked on a lot of projects for a lot of different companies and teams. One thing that dramatically increases the friction of becoming productive on a project is the number of manual and often undocumented steps requi