Recommended development flow for working with published instance

[LyonMartin]

Hi, I was working on a local publish instance. 
Would anyone recommend me what should be the best practices with working on that environment.

Would I need to publish the project on both AEM Author and Publish instances?
Was there any tools on author to replicate all items from the author instance?

And any helpful guides for development practices that might be useful for other devs as well. 

Thanks for your inputs.

[Jagadeesh_Prakash · Accepted solution]

@LyonMartin 

Standard way of doing it is

1. Start author server and do the deployment to author

2. Start publish server and do the deployment to publisher 

3. Install the content packages and custom configs both in author and publisher. (In fact all the necessary pacakges)

If you want to repliacte the content, etc, conf path you need to setup the replication agent and then use the replication tree or content publish tree workflow.

But as this is your local setup i recommand way and easy way is to move the packages from author to publisher