CHAPTER 2

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Setup

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.

Ken Thompson

In this chapter, we1 cover the following topics:

  • Suggestions for the toolset
  • Step-by-step installation of local components
  • Preparation for the use of cloud services

The proper setup is absolutely crucial to the productive development. You need to have everything ready when you embark on a long journey, right? The toolset will make you productive, and the other installations are dependencies like Node.js or MongoDB. They enable the server-side code and persistence, respectively. In addition to that, in the cloud section, we cover setup of the ...

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