Lab environment

Here is an overview of the lab environment you need to get started with this course.

Lab environment

Install Node and npm, latest stable version.

Ensure that you have Git working.

Check that you have access to the course on GitLab.

Texteditor or IDE of your choice.

Terminal for Git, Node and npm and the development tools.

Optional environment

As an extra utility you might want to get going with Docker. That is a useful tool for working with development that requires extra tools and specific versions of software. Docker allows that these development (and production) environments are executed in a virtual docker container that is built from a docker image.