1804-bcp's Introduction

1804-BCP Prep Repository

Getting Started

Download VS Code

I suggest installing 'ESLint', as I've included a linting setup in this repo.

Download Node

Node is slightly different between windows and mac.

Familiarize yourself with basic terminal commands. On Windows, we're talking about Powershell and on Mac we're talking about terminal. There are upgrades to both.

Windows has a very cool one called cmder
On Mac most people like iTerm2
Learn your basic commands in the terminal! You will be using these all the time in the future. Commands on Mac. Commands on Windows.

Practice using these commands to navigate your filesystem!
Make a folder for all your VSCode for this class. Open that folder in VSCode. File -> Open -> Select Folder. You will see the all the files in that folder if you use the explorer (top button on the left in VSCode).
Open the Integrated Terminal through -> View -> Integrated Terminal
Type the following in that terminal and hit enter (in succession): npm install -g yarn then, yarn
Go to 'Extensions' in VSCode (the bottom button on the far left hand side of the window. It looks like a box.) and search for 'ESLint' and install it.
In the terminal run npm install -g nodemon@latest
Navigate to your VSCode folder. Use ls or dir to ensure you see all the files here. REMEMBER TO BE SAVING FILES WITH .JS AT THE END. In your terminal of choice, run nodemon -q ${location of your file}. You will see the terminal display either nothing - or whatever console.log's exist within your file. Every time you save - it will reprint results to the terminal!

Videos

Videos can be found here!.

Notes

You can make a Github account and use it to go to the issues tab on this page and file issues with the README or any part of this setup/codebase that isn't working for you!

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