not sure who all is about it but i wrote a blog post about the local development environment I use for coding my neocities site. Includes hot reloading on file save so you don't have to manually refresh the page and having your code update on neocities by pushing to github using github actions. Seems like a lot but I find it incredibly useful https://tunga.neocities.org/blogs/neocities-coding-heaven
if anyone has any trouble following let me know definitely willing to modify the post to make it easier