Craft is a first and foremost a web application, meaning it’s used primarily from a browser over HTTP.

Setting up a web server (and some related tools) on your own computer will allow you to freely experiment with Craft. We’ll call this your local development environment, from here-on.

The next few pages will get you familiar with:

• The terminal application built into your operating system;
• Your options for a text editor;
• The components of a local web server;