How To: Local Facebook App Development

Developing any computer application is a process that will inevitably involve many mistakes, bugs, and other trials. Indeed, half of writing an application is just testing the code to make sure it behaves correctly, and scratching your head when it doesn’t. Clearly, you want to shield your end-users from experiencing the app in such a state. So, one important and popular web application development technique is to have a local test server for development, only pushing code to the live server after it has been appropriately tested. This is a relatively easy process, especially if your local server (be it your laptop or some other computer on your local network) runs the same OS as your server.