StrongLoop Arc and slc are no longer under active development, and will soon be
deprecated. Arc's features are being included in the IBM API Connect Developer Toolkit: Please use it instead.
This articles below describe how to run applications locally, that is, on your desktop system, typically during development and testing. To run a remote application (one on another system such as a production host), you need to build and deploy it, either with Arc or slc. See Building and deploying and Setting up a production host for more information.
You can run applications locally with Arc or with slc: