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Developer Setup Guide

Complete environment setup for professional development. Follow these steps in order.

Company Employees

Ybor employees: Complete the Ybor Employee Onboarding first to set up company-specific GitHub access and JFrog Artifactory authentication before following this general setup guide.

Setup Overview​

Total Time: ~50 minutes
Result: Full professional development environment

Step-by-Step Guide​

  1. Step 1: Package Managers (3 min) - Install system package managers
  2. Step 2: Git & Version Control (5 min) - Configure source control
  3. Step 3: System Libraries (8 min) - Install build tools and dependencies
  4. Step 4: Java Development Kit (5 min) - Install and configure Java
  5. Step 5: Docker (5 min) - Container platform setup
  6. Step 6: Artifact Management (8 min) - Package repository access
  7. Step 7: Platform CLI (5 min) - Development tools
  8. Step 8: Archetect (3 min) - Project scaffolding tools
  9. Step 9: Kubernetes Tools (5 min) - Container orchestration tools (Optional)
  10. Step 10: IDE Setup (3 min) - Development environment (Final Step)

Quick Start Alternative​

Need to get coding immediately? Try our Developer Quickstart for basic Node.js development, then return here for the full setup.

Final Verification​

After completing all steps, run these commands to verify everything works:

# Core tools
git --version && java -version && docker --version

# Build tools  
pkg-config --modversion openssl  # macOS/Linux
gcc --version                    # macOS/Linux

# Platform tools (if installed)
p6m --version && archetect --version

# Optional tools
kubectl version --client         # If Kubernetes tools installed
k9s version                      # If k9s installed

# Test functionality
docker run hello-world
git status

Success: Your development environment is ready for any project!