[quickthrower2]

Sorry that was my silly subtle joke. The CI I am referring to here is refreshing the page! And I agree the juice isn't worth the squeeze.

(I love CI systems at work and wouldn't live without them, but that wait time :-(, so everyone tries to get the OODA loop on their local machine )

One idea I had would to build an Elm-like backend language BUT with PHP's "edit the file on the server and it runs" nature. Combine that with some source control, forking and more of a VSCode editor on the server, and you would have a nice DX for small projects.

All those features exist but they live in different languages/stacks, you can't have them all at once (I hope this is where someone replies "you say that... but have you tried X"!)