Best way to setup and host my test laravel apps

Hi. I am getting back into development after many years and boy how things have changed.

My question is. How is it best to develop and test laravel apps.

I will be using PHP Storm and I have setup a Ubuntu Server on a raspberry pi and host my own DNs server. The idea was that I could develop on the server and access my apps from any machine or device on the network for testing etc but then I started running into issues.

Is it best to develope locally and maybe then somehow push the app to the pi for local testing (these are personal hobby projects but will have real life use cases)

Is it better to install MAMP n my iMac or maybe even look into Docker?

I setup a local folder and also entered the server details in PHPStorm but then am confused where I run the compose commands and how to connect to the database, perform the migrations etc.

It def seems a lot easier to develop locally but the idea was that I wanted to access my apps from the get go during development, and it made sense to have a small server on my LAN. But now I doubt my decisions.

What does everyone else do? I would especially be interested in hearing from those who also use PHp Storm. Thank you Stephen