For those comfortable with the JavaScript ecosystem, installing the tools required for developing your own Unified UX web components will be a familiar process.
Note: To simply explore the library and create a simple form, this tooling is not required. Instead, please start here.
Visual Studio(VS) Code is a free source-code editor made by Microsoft for Windows, Linux and macOS. Features include support for debugging, syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, snippets, code refactoring, and embedded Git. Install latest version of VS code.
Link: VisualStudio
Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform, back-end, JavaScript runtime environment that executes JavaScript code outside a web browser.
NPM is a package manager for the JavaScript programming language. It is the default package manager for the JavaScript runtime environment Node.js.
Although UUX uses Yarn as its package manager, NPM is used to install other required libraries.
The Node-LTS exe from below site would install both NodeJS as well as the NPM.
Link: NodeJs
Run the below command from cmd line to cross-check if its installed and to check the installed version.
Git is a distributed version-control system for tracking changes in any set of files. You can use either git bash to run Git commands or use terminal from VS code. If you choose to use the later then please make sure that the PATH in your environment variables points to git.exe, if not please add it otherwise you will not be able to run git commands from VS code terminal.
Link: Git
Run the below command from cmd line to cross-check if its installed and to check the installed version
Yarn is a package manager for your code. It allows you to use and share code with other developers. Code is shared through something called a package. A package contains all the code being shared as well as a package.json file (called a manifest) which describes the package.
Run the below command from cmd line to install Yarn
Run the below command from cmd line to cross-check if its installed and to check the installed version
Link: Yarn Guide
Install Jira and Bitbucket extension for VS code for the ease of creating PRs from VS code or accessing Jira items. Follow the below link to download the extension.