prereqs

Pre-Requisites

User Accounts

• You must create an account on IBM Cloud.

• If you do not have an account yet, follow this link to register, using your IBM id: https://console.bluemix.net/registration/

• You’ll be registered for a 30 days trial account.

IBM Cloud Command Line Interface (IBM Cloud CLI)

• This will help you connect to your IBM Cloud account through the command line.

• You can download it from here

• Select the version corresponding to your operating system.

Node and Web Development

• Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. npm, the package manager for JavaScript is installed with Node.js Download the latest stable version 4.X https://nodejs.org/en/download/

• Nodemon is a utility that will monitor for any changes in your source and automatically restart your server. Perfect for development. To install, get node.js, then from your terminal run:

  npm install -g nodemon

• Bower, A package manager for the web. Bower is a command line utily. Install it with npm:

  npm install -g bower

Git

• Git is a distributed version control system where every developers' working copy of the code is also a repo that can contain the full history of all changes. https://git-scm.com/downloads

IDE

There are several modern, open source text editor that understands web design. Select your favorite development environment. Here are some suggestions:

• Atom https://atom.io/

• Brackets http://brackets.io Brackets provides many extensions, including a Git plugin.

• IntelliJ IDEA

• Eclipse Neon http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/release/Neon/1A

• Eclipse Tools for IBM Cloud https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/ibm-eclipse-tools-bluemix

Java JDK

• JDK v1.8 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

Optional tools

• curl, command line tool and library for transferring data with URLs https://curl.haxx.se/

Proxy

If you have an HTTP proxy server on your network between a host running a command lne CLI (e.g. CF) and your Cloud Foundry API endpoint, you must set a proxy variable with the hostname or IP address of the proxy server.

Cloud Foundy Proxy

For Cloud Foundry API endpoint, you must set https_proxy with the hostname or IP address of the proxy server.

set https_proxy=http://<your.company.proxy>:8080

If the proxy server requires a user name and password, include the credentials:

https_proxy=http://username:[email protected]

For more information, go to https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/cf-cli/http-proxy.html

To test if your proxy works, run the following command:

cf api https://api.ng.bluemix.net

Git Proxy

set http.proxy=http://<your.company.proxy>:8080

To set permanently the proxy: git config --global http.proxy http://<your.company.proxy>:8080

To remove it: git config --global --unset http.proxy

To test if your proxy works, run the following command:

git clone https://hub.jazz.net/project/lionelmace/<myapp>