Setup Dev Environment

Requirements

Feel free to use whatever tools you'd like as long as they can meet these requirements. A suggested toolset and setup guide are provided below.

Software

Software	Version	Installation	Description
NodeJS	>= 8.0.0	choose your environment or package manager	NodeJS is the javascript runtime that we will be using since it has support for client and server code. Check by running node --version
npm	>= 5.0.0	pre-installed with NodeJS	npm is a package manager that we will use (kinda like maven from Java or pip from Python). Check by running npm --version. You can learn more on the npm documentation

Environment

Make sure you're running on a UNIX based system (not windows).

Add the following to your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile (whichever you use). This is optional, but will make many developer operations more flexible.

# Allow executing binaries installed as npm dependencies
PATH="./node_modules/.bin:${PATH}"
export PATH

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Setup Guide