Install Discourse on macOS for development

This arguably would be better on the Ubuntu topic, as I’m just running that install on a cloud server, fronted by nginx and a full DNS (no docker), so I’m actually addressing the domain. Running everything from the terminal. I’ve even got Ember CLI working well in that set up now.

It’s not that quick either, but fast enough. It has the benefit of being able to run and test full https callback services.

The fastest plugin development environment by far that I’m aware of is local Docker Dev on WSL2 which screams. It’s also extremely simple to maintain. Unfortunately discourse_theme doesn’t work in that environment yet afaik so I’m back to my cloud server for that work.

It’s a little odd why Apple is lagging behind here? The Microsoft engineers have shown themselves to be very canny.

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