Learning Splunk Web Framework

The development process and development environment

For the next few pages, we are going to take a little break from Splunk and specifically look at the development process and using Git as part of this process. The topics covered are more suited to new developers or developers who are not familiar with working as part of a team or with applications such as Git. If you are familiar with these subjects, feel free to jump to the end of this chapter, where we introduce the sample data and example applications we will be working on through this book.

The development process

When you work in a team developing applications, there is most likely a process in place that you would need to follow to develop, deploy to the development environment, test, deploy ...