Creating a Local Web Development Environment

CLIO is a web-based application, which means that it needs to be developed on your local machine using a web development environment.  Many forms of code development happen in an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) designed to work with a specific coding language, but web development takes a slightly different approach.

For web development, we instead use a Local Web Development Environment (LWDE).  These perform very similarly to an on-line web server, like the ones the power the World Wide Web.  The difference is that this web server is constrained to your local computer and – if configured properly – your local network, meaning that only you and those given access can view or edit content on your Local Web Development Environment.

There are many free and open-source Local Web Development Environments available, which combine all of the required software and configurations required to quickly create a local web server with all of the required tools.

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