# Able to develop Data Modeling 4.0 locally
**URL:** https://community.holistics.io/t/able-to-develop-data-modeling-4-0-locally/990
**Category:** Feature Suggestions
**Tags:** aml
**Created:** [June 14, 2022, 3:03am UTC](https://community.holistics.io/t/able-to-develop-data-modeling-4-0-locally/990 "2022-06-14T03:03:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@tony\_ng](https://community.holistics.io/u/tony_ng)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2022, 3:03am UTC](https://community.holistics.io/t/able-to-develop-data-modeling-4-0-locally/990/1 "2022-06-14T03:03:49Z")
Hi team,
I’m developing Data Modeling 4.0, I faced some issues and I think they would be resolved easily by using my local development environment. Ex:
- Search or replace a text in a whole project
- Git operations: revert, resolve conflict, select files to commit,…
- There’re some other features likes: command palette (Ex: Ctrl/Cmd + P to quickly open a file), split editor, dark mode,…
However, when using my local development environment (by using external git), I cannot see my AML’s result (data model, data set GUI, preview data,…). It would be great if there’s a way I could do it on my local.
Tony
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### Author:  [@Khai\_To](https://community.holistics.io/u/Khai_To)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2022, 8:37am UTC](https://community.holistics.io/t/able-to-develop-data-modeling-4-0-locally/990/2 "2022-06-14T08:37:47Z")
Hi @tony_ng,
This is something that I have been pondering. I have talked with several engineers and some of them prefer local code editor to online editor because it ensures the flexibility, performance, and offline operation.
A scenario could be something like: you develop AML locally, preview the data, and validate your modeling locally (in VS Code) before pushing back to Holistics for BI, self-serve and dashboarding work.
This is definitely something that we will look into, thanks for your suggestion.
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### Author:  [@Khai\_To](https://community.holistics.io/u/Khai_To)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2022, 8:40am UTC](https://community.holistics.io/t/able-to-develop-data-modeling-4-0-locally/990/3 "2022-06-14T08:40:30Z")
I think @david-ri would definitely look forward to something like this. Am I correct? 😁
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### Author:  [@david-ri](https://community.holistics.io/u/david-ri)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2022, 9:51pm UTC](https://community.holistics.io/t/able-to-develop-data-modeling-4-0-locally/990/4 "2022-06-14T21:51:30Z")
Absolutely - We’ve got external git setup for our account. For casual day-to-day development/changes, using the Holistics UI is a great environment for our analyst teams (many of whom are new to this approach of working) .
For more ‘intensive’ changes, rolling something back, setting up a new client (where we want to bulk-replicate) etc, doing this in VS code is much easier.
Anything that expands on what we can do in VS Code (et al) is a great move in my opinion. (being able to work in VS Code also adds us some ‘credibility’ points with our dev team 😉 )