You're reading from Generative AI-Powered Assistant for Developers Accelerate software development with Amazon Q Developer

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835089149

Length 416 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

GPT/LLMs

Authors (2):

Behram Irani

Rahul Sonawane

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1:Generative AI-Powered Assistant

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Generative AI-Powered Assistants FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Introducing and Setting Up Amazon Q Developer

4. Part 2:Generate Code Recommendations

5. Chapter 3: Understanding Auto-Code Generation Techniques

6. Chapter 4: Boost Coding Efficiency for Python and Java with Auto-Code Generation

7. Chapter 5: Boost Coding Efficiency for C and C++ with Auto-Code Generation

8. Chapter 6: Boost Coding Efficiency for JavaScript and PHP with Auto-Code Generation

9. Chapter 7: Boost Coding Efficiency for SQL with Auto-Code Generation

10. Chapter 8: Boost Coding Efficiency for Command-Line and Shell Script with Auto-Code Generation

11. Chapter 9: Boost Coding Efficiency for JSON, YAML, and HCL with Auto-Code Generation

12. Part 3:Advanced Assistant Features

13. Chapter 10: Customizing Code Recommendations

14. Chapter 11: Understanding Code References

15. Chapter 12: Simplifying Code Explanation, Optimization, Transformation, and Feature Development

16. Chapter 13: Simplifying Scanning and Fixing Security Vulnerabilities in Code

17. Part 4:Accelerate Build on AWS

18. Chapter 14: Accelerate Data Engineering on AWS

19. Chapter 15: Accelerate Building Solutions on AWS

20. Chapter 16: Accelerate the DevOps Process on AWS

21. Index

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Amazon Q Developer setup for command line

In the age of sophisticated IDEs, command-line interfaces (CLIs) are still very popular with developers for quick tests and builds. In Part 2 of the book, we will look at how you can use Amazon Q Developer with command lines, but first, we need to ensure that Q is installed and set up for the command line.

Things are constantly evolving, but currently, Amazon Q Developer for the command line is supported only with macOS. There are a handful of shells, terminal emulators, terminal IDEs, and over 500 CLIs supported. Always refer to the AWS documentation for newly supported environments.

Since we are using macOS with the zsh shell terminal, we will guide you through the installation steps for it:

Download and install Amazon Q Developer for the command line. The link is in the References section at the bottom of this chapter.
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