DEVS WEB WORKSHOP 2020

Welcome to the git repository for DEVS' Web Workshop for 2020! Here you will find setup instructions to be completed before the workshop, as well as pre set-up files for our demo application.

Getting started

This workshop requires some software to be installed on your computer. Note: If you attended both our Git workshop and our Coding 101 workshop and completed the prerequsites for that, then you should have all the required software already!

• Visual Studio Code: A text editor which we will be writing our code in.
• Node.js: Used to run our javascript code.
• Git: You will be using this to clone this repository

After installing the software above, you'll need to complete the steps shown in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Hkc-2U3ALI

Windows

A video of the setup process has been recorded for you if you get stuck. https://youtu.be/Yv-Se-KbFa8 (you do not need to install Yarn; you only need to follow until 2:15)

Visual Studio Code

• Download the windows installer from https://code.visualstudio.com/
• Run the installer once downloaded
• Follow the installation steps

Node.js

• Download the windows LTS installer from https://nodejs.org/en/download/
• Run the installer once downloaded
• Follow the installation steps
• Open the windows command prompt (search for cmd)
• Verify that node is installed by running node --version. The node version (e.g. v12.16.0) should be returned.

Git

• Follow ths steps here: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git

MacOS

A video of the setup process has been recorded for you if you get stuck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ntv5XS4NBfU (Note: this video also contains instructions for downloading Yarn, which you do not need to do)

We will use homebrew to install all of the software for mac. Install homebrew by pasting the following command into the terminal (spotlight and search for terminal).

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Visual Studio Code

• Run the following command in the terminal

brew cask install visual-studio-code

Node.js

• Run the following command in the terminal

brew install node

• Verify that node is installed by running node --version. The node version (e.g. v12.16.0) should be returned.

Git

Follow the instructions on this link: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git