--- title: The End of Localhost | daily.dev description: Dev environments should be cattle, not pets. It looks likely that most development will not be done on localhost in future. Fast gigabit internet is cheap and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-end-of-localhost-s9-w05wu twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The End of Localhost | daily.dev og:description: Dev environments should be cattle, not pets. It looks likely that most development will not be done on localhost in future. Fast gigabit internet is cheap and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-end-of-localhost-s9-w05wu og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/s9-W05wU-.png og:image:alt: The End of Localhost og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The End of Localhost **[swyx](https://daily.dev/sources/swyx)** · [@swyx](https://daily.dev/swyx) · 10 min read · 175 upvotes · 23 comments ## Summary Dev environments should be cattle, not pets. It looks likely that most development will not be done on localhost in future. Fast gigabit internet is cheap and everywhere (5G or mesh wifi) Dev machines (laptops, tablets, VR) are cheap and have multiday battery life. Your apps build in a second regardless of scale. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@jessyco** · 18 upvotes > One thing that seems to be missed is just the general cost of being connected and doing work with live things oppose to local. > > If it isn't free than it'll likely only be adopted by a sub-set of the culture. Just a personal observation and preference for local first. The rest of the points seem very valid and intriguing. **@ghost** · 5 upvotes > > But I Need To Code on a Plane? > > Maybe stop flying so much. > > I like it! Haha! **@roguealien** · 2 upvotes > Perhaps this will be only approached by really big companies with a lot of revenue and teams of hundreds working on the same project at the time. In latam those prices could not be paid. 10 USD a day to pay for that its kind of half of the daily salary of a dev that its earnings are above average **@itsiskandar** · 1 upvotes > I think that this is a very good thing, but only for certain projects. If a project requires a lot of storage then it would obviously not work because it would be to costly. But if a project is small enough to fit in a few gigabytes then I think that this would be a really good idea. **@clark** · 0 upvotes > does anyone else get a cert error trying to load this? (I'm in chrome fwiw) > > [](https://freeimage.host/i/s2A1ae) ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#cloud](https://daily.dev/tags/cloud), [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-end-of-localhost-s9-w05wu) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"The End of Localhost","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-end-of-localhost-s9-w05wu","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-end-of-localhost-s9-w05wu"},"datePublished":"2022-06-25T02:55:19.750Z","dateModified":"2026-03-15T03:37:37.913Z","description":"Dev environments should be cattle, not pets. 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But if a project is small enough to fit in a few gigabytes then I think that this would be a really good idea.","datePublished":"2022-08-03T16:32:10.547Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/s9-W05wU-#c-iVibArBCJ","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Iskandar Zulqarnain Hilmi","url":"https://daily.dev/itsiskandar","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a-/AFdZucoSNKcYtExvt1MPvhuVsK-aLHJjk_tqSFcETEDgwbs=s100"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"does anyone else get a cert error trying to load this? (I’m in chrome fwiw)","datePublished":"2022-09-22T17:59:21.970Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/s9-W05wU-#c-jKu6U86lD","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Clark Winters","url":"https://daily.dev/clark","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/40615752?v=4"}}]} ```