appendix A Setting up the development environment
This appendix covers
- Setting up a suitable development environment, either locally or online
- Choosing between using a local development environment or a web IDE
- Setting up a repository for JavaScript development
- Learning how to use a JavaScript dependency manager to install libraries and frameworks
- Using the REPL facility of Node.js
- Running development tools
Chances are you’re already quite familiar with most of what’s in this appendix. Nevertheless, I want to provide the basic instructions you’ll need to set up a suitable development environment that’s guaranteed to work for the code and instructions given throughout the book. From chapter 3 onwards, we’ll be implementing a Domain IDE using this development environment. Along the way, we’ll also implement a Runtime based on a reference implementation for it. The reference implementation is introduced in chapter 8.
Note An integrated development environment (IDE) is a piece of software that integrates the various aspects of building applications, such as writing code, building/compiling, debugging, versioning, etc.
Figure A.1 is an extended version of figure 1.2 showing the DSL-based approach to developing a Runtime using a Domain IDE—this time including the reference implementation for the Runtime.
Figure A.1 Using a DSL-based approach to develop a Runtime using a Domain IDE—reference implementation included
