I recently started using Varying Vagrant Vagrants and xip.io for real device mobile testing of patches on trac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. tickets. I go through tickets with patches that change UI User interface and drop mobile and desktop screenshots of the patches in action. These screenshots hasten UI feedback and usually reveal visual glitches on mobile that are then patched up, making our mobile experience that little bit better. Until that blue sky someday when I can apply patches to a patch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a codebase for testing. server with a tap, I’ve found VVV and xip.io to be the easiest way to do localhost testing of patches from mobile devices. I’m using Vagrant’s public_network option along with xip.io. This allows me to test from any device on my local network using links like http://build.wordpress-develop.192.168.1.11.xip.io/ without the need for port forwarding, dynamic dns, or hosts file editing. The two resources I used most in setting this up were:
https://github.com/Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants/VVV#the-first-vagrant-up
https://jeremyfelt.com/2015/01/31/various-networking-configurations-vvv/
Working those into something for the core Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. developer handbook would be a great public service. Patch testing and mobile testing need to be much easier. Let’s all start putting mobile screenshots of our patches on trac and dogfood The practice of using one's own software, typically bleeding edge (trunk), thus "eating one's own dogfood". This also applies to using one's own APIs internally. the mobile patch testing experience. Setting up and using npm and grunt are currently undocumented in the handbook. There is much confusion about build vs src. Getting to where I could localhost test patches was a struggle.
How do you localhost test patches from physical mobile devices? Do you also use VVV? Have a cool bash_aliases or other script to share?
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