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: It provides a safe space for individual developers to customize their local setup (e.g., pointing to a local database at localhost:5432 instead of a remote staging server). Best Practices for Your .env.development File
You, as a developer, need to test on port 8080 with verbose logs. Instead of modifying the committed file (causing merge conflicts), you create .env.local : .env.development