Why use DDEV for Shopware?: Recently, DDEV has been growing in popularity amongst both Shopware developers and Shopware agencies. Here’s my theory as to why that is.
Using shopware-cli with DDEV: This page explains how to use shopware-cli with DDEV. shopware-cli replaces some of Shopware's commands (like bin/storefront-build.sh), and adds a set of useful commands.
Setting up workers and the scheduler as automated tasks: This page explains how to setup the messenger:consume and scheduled-task:run workers (the "message queue") in a DDEV environment, mirroring a production server setup.
Contribute with DDEV: This page explains how to setup a local contributing environment for Shopware 6' community edition with DDEV.
Performance Tweaks: This page provides some basic performance tweaks for running a Shopware project with DDEV.
RabbitMQ with DDEV: This page explains how to setup the open-source message queuing software RabbitMQ with DDEV and Shopware 6.
phpstan pro with DDEV: For phpstan pro see https://phpstan.org/blog/introducing-phpstan-pro. It's a great tool, it's monthly plan for developers should be worth it for most of us.
Running Claude Code in DDEV: If you do not wish to install Claude Code directly on your computer, this chapter explains how you can easily run it from within your DDEV container.
Frontend Work with Claude Code and Playwright: When asking Claude for help with frontend development, it obviously needs some kind of access to the browser frontend. Playwright can provide direct access to browser output for Claude Code.
DDEV behind Fritz!Box Routers: Your project starts, but the browser cannot find myshop.ddev.site. The Fritz!Box's DNS rebind protection is swallowing the answer — here is the one-line exception that fixes it.