Developing Cloud Applications Locally

It is recommended to develop web applications locally and deploy the final application to the cloud, although it is possible to develop web applications directly on cloud-based servers. Developing applications locally has the following advantages:

Local deployment takes seconds on a running server. Deployment to the Cloud can take minutes.
Incremental deployment is only available locally.
Debugging is only available locally.

To locally develop applications that you will later deploy to the cloud, your local environment must mirror the environment on the cloud.

When your local environment is set up, develop web applications as usual. When the application is complete, deploy it to the cloud environment.

For more details about working with cloud providers supported in the IDE, see the following documents.

See Also: About Web Applications on the Cloud; Registering a Cloud Account; About Web Applications

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