Local Development Setup Guide

This guide will setup late and its dependencies on your computer as well as the required software you need for development.

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🧰 Step 1: Quickstart Script

If on Windows

Install Ubuntu 18.04 (WSL) from PowerShell:

Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://aka.ms/wsl-ubuntu-1804 -OutFile Ubuntu.appx -UseBasicParsing
Add-AppxPackage .\Ubuntu.appx
Open "bash" from the start menu and setup your account (don't forget your username and password!)
Run the quickstart script below

Run this in a terminal in Linux or MacOS or in bash on WSL:

bash -c "$(curl -L -o- tiny.cc/setuplate)"

Script Details

What does this script do?

install nvm
install node
install git
configure git
clone the late repo in your home folder
download all dependencies
checkout to the `dev` branch

TODO: terminal recording

You will now have a folder in your home directory called late/, e.g. C:\Users\Frank\late or /home/frank/late. This is where all of LATE is stored locally on your computer.

🤐 Step 2: .env File

At this point you have the files for LATE on your computer but in order to actually run it you need all of our secrets and passwords that allows us to connect to the database, use Google APIs, etc. These are stored in a file named .env in the root folder of late/. THIS MUST BE NAMED .env and NOT env OR ANYTHING ELSE OR THE INFO CAN BE LEAKED

Frank will send you this file when joining the team. If this does not happen, message him and ask for it.