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Which TLD should you be using for development and how to use it
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Using the right TLD & Tools for Development & Testing

First of all, what TLD’s should you use for development

At the time of writing the list of Reserved TLDs contains 4 different domains specifically for "Testing & Documentation Examples"

  • .test
  • .example
  • .invalid
  • .localhost

A subsection of the document also declares reserved second-level addresses:

  • example.com
  • example.net
  • example.org

See [Reserved Top Level DNS Names)(http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606) for more info

Right, but how would I use one of those locally

macOS

The crudest way is to make an entry in your /etc/hosts/ file, fortunately there are tools which can streamline this such as SwitchHosts

Another option is to install a local DNS server such as http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html to re-route for example all *.test requests to localhost See also Using Dnsmasq For Local Development On MacOS

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