Environment setup

A quick overview of the basic environment setup used throughout this course

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Table of Contents

Lesson Transcript

  • [00:00 - 00:12] This lesson quickly covers some of the environment tooling you use throughout the rest of the course. If you're comfortable using replacements, for example yarn instead of NPM, feel free to make those adjustments.

  • [00:13 - 00:26] This course was created with node version 12 and NPM version 6, however any recent version should be sufficient. A quick way to check your version is to run node-v in your terminal.

  • [00:27 - 00:37] If you don't already have node in NPM installed, follow the steps for installing them using a node version manager. This allows you to install multiple versions of node and seamlessly switch between different versions.

  • [00:38 - 00:52] Any editor should be sufficient for this course, however I will be using VS code because it has great TypeScript support. Similarly, any terminal should be sufficient to run the scripts with node such as Iterm2 on Mac or Windows Terminal on Windows.

  • [00:53 - 01:02] Now that we have a base understanding of ASTs, some of the ecosystem and tools will need, the next lesson will dive into generating ASTs.

  • [00:00 - 00:12] This lesson quickly covers some of the environment tooling you use throughout the rest of the course. If you're comfortable using replacements, for example yarn instead of NPM, feel free to make those adjustments.

    [00:13 - 00:26] This course was created with node version 12 and NPM version 6, however any recent version should be sufficient. A quick way to check your version is to run node-v in your terminal.

    [00:27 - 00:37] If you don't already have node in NPM installed, follow the steps for installing them using a node version manager. This allows you to install multiple versions of node and seamlessly switch between different versions.

    [00:38 - 00:52] Any editor should be sufficient for this course, however I will be using VS code because it has great TypeScript support. Similarly, any terminal should be sufficient to run the scripts with node such as Iterm2 on Mac or Windows Terminal on Windows.

    [00:53 - 01:02] Now that we have a base understanding of ASTs, some of the ecosystem and tools will need, the next lesson will dive into generating ASTs.