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title: "Choosing a development environment"
date: "2024-02-14T06:18:38+00:00"
summary: "Discover the best Drupal development environment with Acquia's recommendations. Learn about Cloud IDE's benefits and explore alternative local development solutions for seamless Drupal project creation."
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Acquia recommends [Cloud IDE](/acquia-cloud-platform/add-ons/ide) as the best environment for Drupal development. With Cloud IDE, you still have your own development environment, but now it’s in the Cloud. That means you don’t have to download, install or troubleshoot software on your own machine.

Learn [how to get started with Cloud IDE](/acquia-cloud-platform/add-ons/ide/start).

If you cannot use Cloud IDE, Acquia provides limited integration with open source alternatives to Cloud IDE. For more information, see [Local development solutions](/acquia-cloud-platform/add-ons/acquia-cli/docker).