Chapter 2. Development Environment

You now have tools to create and tools to test. In Chapter 1, we recommended that in order to properly evaluate your application, you should always test it thoroughly on a proper device, whichever it is you are targeting. Likewise, the most reliable way to know how your pages are going to behave on the user's side is to use them in close to real conditions right from the development process.

Once you have your application ready and shining, you will have to host it on a server so it can be served throughout the World Wide Web. Legitimately yet, you may not want to host your web site on a production platform while still in the development stage. Because some restrictions and shortcomings apply only when a site ...

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