This page applies to Apigee and Apigee 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 the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) IDE, including verifying the functionality through unit and manual testing using the Apigee Emulator (local runtime).
During local 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).
During archive deployment, deploy to Apigee for integration testing and release, leveraging an archive that contains the complete environment and API proxy configuration.
Benefits of local development with Apigee
The benefits of local development with Apigee include:
- Use Gemini Code Assist for faster API design, development, and management.
- Quickly iterate through build and test cycles without impact to other dependent applications
- 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
Gemini Code Assist for Apigee API management
Apigee can include API assistive functionality for API design and management in Cloud Code, with Gemini Code Assist, including:>
- Using the @Apigee tool in Gemini Code Assist, generate OpenAPI specification (OAS), version 3.0 specs from prompts describing the APIs. Spec development can include contextual information from your Apigee API hub enterprise context to inform spec development.
- Gemini Code Assist uses your enterprise API hub catalog when generating specifications.
- View and edit the generated spec.
- Test the API with mock servers. Use a local mock server for testing in your local development environment. Create a remote mock server for a persistent test service that allows multiple simultaneous developers to test the API.
- Add APIs to your enterprise API hub catalog.
- Edit existing OpenAPI specs using prompts by invoking the @Apigee tool in Gemini Code Assist
- Create an Apigee API proxy from your spec in the local development environment.
To use this functionality, you must set up Gemini Code Assist for Apigee. See Use Gemini Code Assist with Cloud Code and Apigee.
Prevented actions with archive deployment
To support local development, you must enable archive deployment for an environment in your Apigee organization. When you enable archive deployment in an Apigee environment, you will be prevented from performing certain actions within the environment to prevent conflicts with local development. For complete details, see Summary of prevented actions with archive deployment.