@nate has given you some good advice. I do PHP dev on my laptop running EOS, but I am running PHP $latest_version in order to winkle out any issues in my application before those on stable trip over them. I also look after some legacy websites. And am currently mangling Drupal6 _LTS to work with PHP 8! 
If you are interested in working with nGinx, this may help: Local LEMP development [Tutorial]
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