Developer Guides#
While open-source technologies are often developer-friendly, the underlying development environment can be a bit more intimidating and difficult to work with.
These guides will teach you the CodeRed way of doing development. The CodeRed way is not the only way, however we believe it is a good balance between simplicity and professionalism. These guides use freely available open-source tools, and are not specific to the CodeRed Cloud hosting platform. However, we are writing it up here for the benefit of CodeRed customers and employees.
Prerequisites#
Before starting any of the guides below, you’ll need a terminal and an editor. A terminal (also referred to as a console, command line, command prompt, or shell) is the program on your computer that lets you run system and developer tools. An editor lets you write code.
On macOS, the terminal is simply named Terminal.
For editing files, use TextEdit, or install Visual Studio Code.
Note: When using TextEdit, be sure to select Format > Make Plain Text before saving files.
On Windows, use PowerShell with Windows Terminal.
For editing files, use Notepad, or install Visual Studio Code.
On Linux, the terminal might be named Terminal or Konsole.
For editing files, use Text Editor or Kate, or install Visual Studio Code.