Setting up your environment
Before you start writing any code, you need to organize a few preliminary things. Specifically, you need to make a GitLab project for storing your code and running your pipelines, you need to make some GitLab issues to help plan and track your work, and you need to clone the project’s repository to your local computer so that you can write code using your favorite IDE instead of entirely within the GitLab GUI.
Making a GitLab project
Let’s rewind to the beginning of our journey with the Hats for Cats web app. We know we want to make a web app for our online feline accessories store, so let’s start by making a GitLab project to hold not only our web app’s code but also the additional GitLab components that we’ll be using as we build the app.
A note about the GUI
Throughout this chapter, we’ll continue our practice of showing you code snippets but generally not showing the steps for using the GitLab GUI...
