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Setup and Access

Local Setup​

In general, we recommend getting the following installed and running on your machine, to facilitate workflows we tend to use:

Visual Studio Extensions​

The following are recommended and required VS Code extensions.

  • Code Spell Checker -- Required
  • Debugger for Chrome
  • Live Share
  • markdownlint
  • For drupal developers, please follow the following drupal.org article to set up VS Code for better drupal development locally.

Drupal specific issues​

  • May need to add keys from places like acquia into the ssh-agent, in order for sourctree to be able to find them when pushing: $ ssh-add -K ~/.ssh/<private_key_file>.
  • Install drush launcher in order to use repo specific drush versions.

Access to repositories/accounts/etc​

You will also potentially need access to the following:

These are generally assigned via individual accounts, so this could be to an existing account in some cases (if you have one) or one to be created under idfive email accounts.