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Establishing a proper development environment
From the course: Learning Cloud Service APIs
Establishing a proper development environment
Working with cloud service APIs is generally not a whole lot different from normal development. But there are a few steps you can take to be more productive and efficient. Of course, you'll need to establish your core development environment. This is likely to include a web server capable of making HTTP and HTTPS connection that are required by some APIs. It should also include support for your primary programming language and/or framework, such as PHP, Java, Python, node.js, or Ruby. And, depending on your app, a database server like MySQL. To handle the coding, you'll need a flexible IDE or Integrated Development Environment. Some popular choices are Eclipse, NetBeans, Sublime Text, or Aptana. There are some APIs that offer plugins to widely used IDEs like Eclipse. For example, Amazon Web Services has a toolkit directly intended for Eclipse. It's important that the IDE you work with is, at the very least, compatible with the language required by your API. In the best case scenario…
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