[dogleash]

>This may be true but if kind of pointless as an api on localist isn’t very useful unless you’re automating your home. Of course it’s easier to hack something out on localhost than to design for actual users.

When did developing software on your own machine stop meaning "design for actual users"?

You should have a strong and reliable deployment for production, yes. But not being able run a baby instance locally just as easily means sacrificing your development loop.

[prepend]

Designing for me as a single user is different from designing for other users. Other users can’t hit my localhost.

The article talked about how much time it takes to get working so it seems like the author took shortcuts to get it working locally.

I agree that it’s a good practice to dev so deploying locally works as well as deploying remotely (or to lots of environments). But this is different than developing only for localhost.