Lab Introduction

In this episode, you and I will do the following together:

1. We’ll talk about the intent of this lab and what you should get out of it.
2. I’ll show you the different end results of the customizations you’ll do.
3. Step-by-step, you and I will walk through setting up your machine for this lab.
4. We’ll talk about how you should do the lab. Spoiler alert: do it with me.

Make sure you’ve already got your local machine setup for development. You can check either of these labs to make sure you have Composer and Git on your machine:

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Local Development Environment Setup for Macfree

Your local web development environment is critical to your ability to efficiently produce high quality and well-tested software projects. This environment should be incredibly easy to use. It should support the way you work, making you better and faster while demanding very little of your time. In this hands-on lab, you will setup your local web development environment. It will include version control with Git, helper apps, package managers (Composer, Node, and npm), task runner with Gulp, local webserver, and a professional editor.

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Local Development Environment Setup for Windowsfree

Your local web development environment is critical to your ability to efficiently produce high quality and well-tested software projects. This environment should be incredibly easy to use. It should support the way you work, making you better and faster while demanding very little of your time. In this hands-on lab, you will setup your local web development environment. It will include version control with Git, helper apps, package managers (Composer, Node, and npm), task runner with Gulp, local webserver, and a professional editor.

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For the setup, here are links to what you and I are setting up in this episode:

• Add 2 dummy posts. I use this lipsum website to get some dummy text.
• Setup the local website on your machine. I use Local by Flywheel, which is FREE. In this episode, I walk you through it’s setup.
• Download or clone Beans – make sure you name the Beans folder as “tm-beans”.
• Download Bean’s basic child starter theme
• Kint via the Kint PHP Debugger plugin or using UpDevTools.