Workstation Setup

Workstations

System Requirements

Web Development

	Ideal	Optimal
RAM	8GB	16GB
STORAGE	500GB	1TB
Motherboard	Core-i5	Core-i7

Mobile Development

Considering iOS development needs a Macbook a Macbook is preferred

Device	Ideal	Optimal
Macbook Air	8GB	16GB

Install base set packages

On MAC OS X

• Install homebrew and then

brew install git
brew install wget

On Ubuntu

apt install build-essential
apt install git
apt install wget

Install NVM and node version 12 (minimum)

You can read more about NVM on their docs.

Over time the default might change to 16 instead of 12.

Note: If using M1 Mac, you will not be able to use anything lower than 16 without problems.

touch ~/.bash_profile
wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.32.1/install.sh | bash
source ~/.bash_profile
nvm install 12
nvm install 14
nvm install 16
nvm use 12
nvm alias default 12

Install global packages

npm install -g yarn nodemon

Install local dependencies from project directory

npm i
#or
yarn install

Docker

Majority projects contain a Dockerfile and a docker-compose.yml file that can be used to orchestrate docker containers on the go, which is what is recommended, so based your system download and install docker and docker compose

• Mac OS X / Windows => Download and install Docker Desktop
• Linux => Use your system package manager to install the community version of docker and docker-compose (>= 2.0.0)

Databases

If working with a project that needs a local postgres database, look through the config to see the development configuration and create the database with the needed users

But it is recommend to just use docker to create these databases and use them to avoid having to deal with various postgres version and different user roles