Prerequisites

You may have this stuff, but if not, do this

Some of these aren’t mandatory. However, you really will benefit from and eventually need each of these. Easiest to install them right up front.

SOFTWARE TOOLS: _{^{(run these from your computer’s top level directory)}}

• npm

  install npm

• Yarn

  Sudo npm install --global yarn

• Homebrew

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  bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

  _{^{There are times running uninstall and then install clears some issues}}
  

  /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/uninstall.sh)"

  _{^{You may have to do a brew link --overwrite git to simply redo some directories that were not cleared of the prior files and get them updated.}}

• Nodejs

  https://nodejs.org/en/download/

• Git (install ‘globally’ to use local {version control](/gitbasics.md))

  https://git-scm.com/downloads)

• Composer (To make sure the parts of Drupal have compatible version pleases use Composer)

  sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

  _{^{The above command is to install composer globally so it works across all your directories and thus projects. More on installing composer here …}}

• Docker underlies the containers that both Platform.sh uses as a host and Lando uses for your local development environment. The basic Docker things you need will come automatically with the Platform.sh project recipe/template you initially pull. If you already have Docker installed, you may need to let the version step backward to a prior version since you should use the version from the Platform.sh-Lando recipe.

• VSCode is an IDE (Integrated Development Environment); use it with at least with some of the extra extensions.

  https://code.visualstudio.com/

VSCode Extensions

You can enhance the basic IDE with extensions and some of these can be especially valuable to consider adding now …

• Github Pull Request and Issues provides a GUI alternative to most commands you would have to type

• Git History helps make it easy to compare files and commits to see what was changed

• Git Lens-Git Supercharged visualize code authorship at a glance, seamlessly navigate and explore Git repositories, gain valuable insights via rich visualizations of branches, and powerful comparison commands

• Remote – SSH lets you use any remote machine with a SSH server as your development environment

• Docker makes it easy to build, manage, and deploy containerized applications

• Dev Containers Quickly swap between different, separate development environments and safely make updates without worrying about impacting your local machine

• PHP Intelephense Helps with PHP coding, even things like supporting CamelCase.

• PHP Debug The name pretty much tells the story on what this extension does.

• TWIG Language This not only helps with TWIG but also includes HTML Intellisense.

• Indent Rainbow colorizes the indentation in front of your text, alternating four different colors on each step

• JSON adds json support

• Sniffer & Beautifier Extension has been recommended by others heavily involved in Drupal development. You find it here.

• Market Place of Extensions

Sign up for these

• Sign up for a GitHub account and ideally know how to use the SSH connection

• Sign up for Platform.sh and authenticate an account. It is strongly recommended that you sign up for Platform.sh by clicking on the GitHub sign-in option using the GitHub account you just set up. Then install the Platform.sh Command Line Interface (CLI), on a MacBook run curl -sS https://platform.sh/cli/installer | php

  Platform.sh CLI Documentation:

  For a detailed, cookbook style, sign up that moves directly to establishing your Drupal project Click Here

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