Ember Workshop Setup

wicked-ember.txt

Stuff to Download/Install

Install nvm

nvm lets you toggle between different versions of node.js easily. Installation is pretty simple, but is slightly different for Mac vs. Windows. Follow instructions here

Once you’re done, you can install versions of node quite easily

nvm install 5
nvm install 6 
and set the default version of node to use

nvm alias default 5 
Install npm_lazy

npm_lazy is a local npm cache, that works offline using some simple proxying. Installation is pretty simple:

npm install -g npm_lazy
You can then have it create a default config file for you, and start it up

npm_lazy --init > ~/npm_lazy.config.js
npm_lazy --config ~/npm_lazy.config.js
Finally, point npm to localhost:8080 as a registry.

npm config set registry http://localhost:8080/
You can always reverse this (later) by doing

npm config set registry http://registry.npmjs.com/
Now, clear your npm cache, so you pull everything through npm_lazy

npm cache clean
And start npm installing stuff. Anything you install will be cached for offline use in case you lose connectivity later

Install ember-cli

I suggest installing ember-cli 2.5 and 2.6, since there were some important bug fixes and new bugs introduced.

npm install -g ember-cli@2.5.0
npm install -g ember-cli@2.6.0
Install Visual Studio Code

In addition to your text editor of choice, I want to make sure everyone has visual studio code. We’re going to do some node.js debugging, and this makes it WAY more fun. Download it here

Ruby

We’ll end up doing some CI/CD stuff, and for that it’s convenient to have Travis-CI’s ruby gem installed. Installation instructions are here, and you have a Mac, note that you already have ruby installed.

Heroku toolbelt

This will help us manage our heroku apps from the command line. Get the tool belt here and install it



I can't wait to teach this new stuff to you! Please let me know if you have any questions,

Mike