XAMPP is out of the box. For local development, it’s fine. If you must expose it to a network:
You clone a repository, run composer, and install dependencies. The app curls awake. You test forms, seed data, and click through registration workflows. For a moment the site behaves like it might in the wild: errors surface, you patch them, then you watch a test user sign up and post a photo. It is imperfect and glorious. welcome to xampp for windows 10