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I’m trying to build my WordPress site locally and I’m having trouble deciding which local environment to use. I’m on Mac. Sounds like MAMP is a really good option, but I want to make sure I’ll eventually be able to push my site live without having to pay to upgrade to MAMP Pro. I understand I will need to purchase hosting in order to publish my site, I just want to avoid paying for my development environment. Any advice is appreciated! TIA!
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MAMP is just a way to create a server environment on your computer, and essentially installs a bunch of required services so that your environment works correctly. Essentially the same as how a live web server for a database-driven site will require an OS (i.e. Linux), Apache (or Nginx depending on your preference), MySQL and PHP. That’s typically referred to as a LAMP stack.
The Pro version just allows you to do extra things locally, but doesn’t stop you from being able to back up your sites and transfer them to a live server. You can do whatever you want.
To ‘publish’ your site you can just use one of the many backup plugins (e.g. Duplicator) to create a snapshot of your local site, and then most of those backup plugins have a restore/installer process to restore that backup on another server.
I’d take a look at Local.