# Devops, vagrant? Your insight is appreciated
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/devops-vagrant-your-insight-is-appreciated/637614
**Category:** web dev
**Created:** [December 14, 2017, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/devops-vagrant-your-insight-is-appreciated/637614 "2017-12-14T16:44:09Z")
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### Author:  [@Casey\_Carnnia](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Casey_Carnnia)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2017, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/devops-vagrant-your-insight-is-appreciated/637614/1 "2017-12-14T16:44:09Z")
I just watched the [“Easily Creating Your React Dev Environment”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apIfzK9HVtA) video. I want to set up my local development environment such that mimics the production. Mostly because our current production environment is simply a LAMP stack and I’d be deploying the first react project. We also lack a devops engineer here. So the lessons learned in setting up the dev environment will, with modification, carry me to stg and prod.
I am planning to look for a [vagrant boxes](https://app.vagrantup.com/boxes/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&sort=downloads&provider=&q=nvm) that is setup with node.js and add to it create-react-app as a starting point.
Have any of you done a similar thing? Am I thinking about this the correct way?
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### Author:  [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2017, 3:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/devops-vagrant-your-insight-is-appreciated/637614/2 "2017-12-18T03:35:08Z")
I have not ☹
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### Author:  [@senocular](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/senocular)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2017, 6:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/devops-vagrant-your-insight-is-appreciated/637614/3 "2017-12-18T18:18:11Z")
I don’t have much direct experience, but we tend to rely on [Chef](https://learn.chef.io/#/) a lot. It helps have consistent builds.
We used to have a local vagrant build a while back for testing, but we ended up ditching it because of the added complexity. Now we just use a standard local HTTP server that calls out to deployed staging/production services. Any differences there might be between local (dev) and production (prod) ultimately get caught in the path to production (dev -\> ci automation -\> qa -\> prod).