Labs are hands-on coding projects that you build along with Tonya as she explains the code, concepts, and thought processes behind it. You can use the labs to further your code knowledge or to use right in your projects. Each lab ties into the Docx to ensure you have the information you need.
Each lab is designed to further your understanding and mastery of code. You learn more about how to think about its construction, quality, maintainability, programmatic and logical thought, and problem-solving. While you may be building a specific thing, Tonya presents the why of it to make it adaptable far beyond that specific implementation, thereby giving you the means to make it your own, in any context.
Recorded: March 27, 2018 VVV is very popular in the WordPress development community. I prefer Local by Flywheel for all of my development work. However, if you need or prefer VVV, then this episode is for you. We’ll walk through it together. Here is the installation guide for VVV.
Recorded: March 24, 2018 My preferred localhost is Local by Flywheel. It’s the one I use for all of my WordPress work. In this episode, we’ll talk about why I prefer it. Then we’ll install and set it up. I’ll show you how you can quickly enable SSL and switch environments (like change the PHP version) in seconds. Why? Why not WAMP or VVV? Here are the main reasons why I use Local: Sites are isolated into separate Docker containers. That means I can switch environments on one site without affecting any of my other projects. In a couple of […]
Recorded: March 26, 2018 We want to run a localhost web server on our Windows machine in order to simulate a real world web server. That means we want to run it in a virtual environment and container, separate from our computer. In this episode, you will install VirtualBox, Vagrant, and 3 Vagrant plugins. Click here to get the link to all of these dependencies.
Re-recorded: March 24, 2018 In order to securely communicate with a remote server, we use SSH. In this episode, you will generate a SSH key pair on your computer and then on GitHub. We are going to walk through each of the steps indicated in this GitHub document.
Re-recorded and updated: March 24, 2018 In this episode, you will install and setup Git on your Mac including setting up the global configuration and creating a global .gitignore file. Go to the git website, and download the .exe file. Then click on the file to open the installer GUI. Accept all of the defaults and install. Let’s next check that git is installed. Open either Git Bash or the built-in Windows Command Prompt. Then type git –version. If it returns the version, then it is properly installed. Next, we setup the global git configuration. You can use this gist […]
In this episode, I will introduce you to what you will do in this lab. In addition, we’ll talk about what a properly setup local development environment should do for you.
Congratulations! You now have all of the components installed for your local development environment. Tune Your Local Development Environment Want to continue tuning your local development environment? Follow this path to get the most out of your workflow.
PhpStorm is a professional integrated development environment (IDE) which is specifically made for PHP-powered projects. Right out of the box, you get the WordPress Coding Standard and WordPress Core documentation built right into the environment. There are no plugins you need to install and you get full control of the key mappings. In this episode, let’s walk through the installation process.
You always need a text editor. For me I use it for things like commit messages, formatting HTML output that I’ve grabbed from the browser, viewing text files, and more. I use my text editor for that specific task: editing text. It complements my preferred professional integrated development environment (IDE), i.e. PhpStorm. In this episode, let’s install Atom and get it setup. We’ll also configure it as the editor for git.
We want to automate redundant tasks to save ourselves time and money. Tools like gulp let us automate various tasks such as compiling Sass or LESS in CSS, optimizing images, svgs, fonts, etc., error checking our CSS and JavaScript code against known standards, and minifying the final files. These tasks are perfect candidates for a JavaScript-powered task runner.
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