# Prerequisites

Shaper is a multiplatform project.

For production or staging environment, you need only the latest "ASP.NET Core Runtime".

[https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet)

For development, you need also the latest "Visual Studio".

[https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/)

If you want to use a local database, "Microsoft SQL Server" is recommended.

[https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-downloads ](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-downloads)

## Cloud or On Premise

Shaper is based on ASP.NET so you can host it where you want:

- On Premise with Windows and IIS
- On Premise with Linux and Nginx
- In a Docker environment
- On Microsoft Azure
- ...and so on!