Conflicts with XAMPP vs local install of components?

Am going through a CodeIgniter tutorial and was advised by instructor on first developing locally and then deploying to hosting My local environs is Ubuntu 22.04. Initially, I installed PHP and Apache2, but realized the instructor specified XAMPP. If I were to install XAMPP, should I first purge all local php and apache2 installs or will the two play together nicely and I ought to be able to run everything smooth?