JS Dev Environment

Before you Begin

Before you begin check out the sections here.

Applications in Use

  1. FileMaker 19.3 or later
  2. VSCode
  3. Terminal (macOS) or Command Prompt (Windows)
    • These are already installed on your machine.

Sign Up for

If you don't already have a github account, please set one up.

Install

In order for this environment to work, you need to install a few items.

  1. Install the latest LTS version of node.js
  2. Install Git.

Again, don't worry. We will walk through all you need to know. However, you can do the following:

  1. Open Terminal (or Command Prompt)
  2. Check your npm and git versions.
    • npm --version
    • git --version

See, it's actually pretty easy to work with the command line.

Onward

Now, let's actually grab and set up the environment.

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