Chapter 2: Setting Up Your Pimcore Development Environment

In the first chapter, we took a wide-angle overview of Pimcore. Now it's time to start getting our hands dirty with some code!

In this chapter, we will learn how to set up a development environment and start developing using Pimcore. This chapter is mandatory for having a working local environment and playing with Pimcore.

This chapter is organized as follows:

  • Installing Pimcore from Composer (without Docker)
  • Installing Pimcore using Docker
  • Exploring folder conventions

Let's start our Pimcore setup!

Technical requirements

Writing code in Pimcore is very easy and does not require any paid tools. Despite the added value of most paid tools, we decided to use only free tools to make the ...

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