Summary
In this chapter, we set up all of the tooling we need to develop our app. We started by installing a system package manager, which we then used to install and set up git. With git, we created our local repository and started to commit code. We installed Python, NodeJS, Terraform, and the tooling required to format, lint, and test the code. Finally, we used Terraform to create and set up a remote GitHub repository with working CI, ensuring that our code is automatically checked on every change.
The tooling we’ve installed in this chapter is required to develop the app described in the following chapters. It will also allow you to do so quickly, as the tooling will help you quickly identify issues and errors with the code.
In the next chapter, we’ll start developing the backend of our app, with the focus being on setting up the app framework and extensions that support the features we want, for example, authentication.
