This pageapplies toApigee andApigee hybrid.

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You can develop and test your Apigee APIs and API proxies in a local environment using Cloud Code. Cloud Code is an extension that integrates your Apigee API development, testing, and deployment into theVisual Studio Code (VS Code) IDE, including verifying the functionality through unit and manual testing using the Apigee Emulator (local runtime).

Duringlocal development, use Apigee in Cloud Code to develop your API proxies and verify the functionality through unit and manual testing using the Apigee Emulator (local runtime).

Duringarchive deployment, deploy to Apigee for integration testing and release, leveraging an archive that contains the complete environment and API proxy configuration.

This feature is subject to the "Pre-GA Offerings Terms" in the General Service Terms section of theService Specific Terms. Pre-GA features are available "as is" and might have limited support. For more information, see thelaunch stage descriptions.

Benefits of local development with Apigee

The benefits of local development with Apigee include:

• Quickly iterate through build and test cycles without impact to other dependent applications
• Access and manage APIs in your API hub catalog, including publishing new APIs to API hub
• Create and run repeatable unit tests that verify that the code is producing the intended outcome
• Identify the set of changes that are deployed as part of a release
• Track who made changes to a specific deployment

Prevented actions with archive deployment

To support local development, you mustenable archive deployment for an environment in your Apigee organization. When you enable archive deployment in an Apigee environment, you will beprevented from performing certain actions within the environment to prevent conflicts with local development. For complete details, seeSummary of prevented actions with archive deployment.