Developer Guide: Preparing the environment

To build OpenRemote projects, you have to first prepare the environment on your developer workstation or build machine.

Dependencies

Ensure you have installed and configured the following tools:

• Java 8 JDK (OpenJDK, Oracle Java SE JDK)
• GIT
• Docker
• NodeJS
• Bower

Ensure the following commands execute successfully:

java -version
git --version
docker ps
docker-compose version
docker-machine ls
node -v
bower -v

A Docker engine is required to host the services used. Please refer to the Docker sections of the Developer Guide for help in installing and using Docker.