Development Environment Setup

Development Environment Setup

Here I will go through the recommended programs, tools, etc. to develop LATE. These are based on what I (Frank) use after experimenting with different methods and editors and consulting recommended practices for our stack.

Operating System

Linux

I 100% prefer working on Linux for LATE due to the absolute ease of installing node, editors, and other necessary tools. I recommend Ubuntu 19.04 but other beginner friendly distros like Mint will be easy to work with.

Windows

If you are working on Windows, you really really really should use Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to use Linux tools from the command line. Its easy to setup and makes development a thousand times easier than working with native Windows. You will be slightly limited with code editors as they sometimes don't recognize programs installed on WSL and require you to double install programs (once on Windows and once on WSL).

Mac

I haven't used a Macbook for web development yet so I'm not too sure about how well this would work.