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Chapter 01

Wire a Safe Local Workstation

One repeatable machine, verified on Windows, macOS and Ubuntu.

What you will be able to do: You can rebuild your development environment from scratch on a clean machine and prove every tool resolves.

Tools you will use

GitNode.jsPythonDockerGitHub CLIpnpm

Scripts shipped with this chapter

  • environment-setup.ps1
  • validate-environment.js

Your Day 1 checklist

  1. 1Install the toolchain on your OS
  2. 2Enable and pin the package manager
  3. 3Create the project workspace
  4. 4Verify each executable resolves on PATH
  5. 5Prove setup changed no tracked file

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