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    Never touch your local /etc/hosts file in OS X again

To setup your computer to work with *.dev domains, e.g. project.dev, awesome.dev and so on, without having to add to your hosts file each time.

Requirements

Homebrew
Mountain Lion -> High Sierra

Install
brew install dnsmasq

Setup
Create config directory
mkdir -pv $(brew --prefix)/etc/

Setup *.dev
echo 'address=/.dev/127.0.0.1' >> $(brew --prefix)/etc/dnsmasq.conf

Change port for High Sierra
echo 'port=53' >> $(brew --prefix)/etc/dnsmasq.conf

Autostart - now and after reboot
sudo brew services start dnsmasq

Add to resolvers
Create resolver directory
sudo mkdir -v /etc/resolver

Add your nameserver to resolvers
sudo bash -c 'echo "nameserver 127.0.0.1" > /etc/resolver/dev'

Finished
That's it! You can run scutil --dns to show all of your current resolvers, and you should see that all requests for a domain ending in .dev will go to the DNS server at 127.0.0.1