Project 2.3: Development Environment Setup
Set up your local development environment with Docker, Python, and Node.js for building TaskFlow
Lab Overview
🛠Lab from the Platform Engineering Bootcamp. Used in Week 2. Bootcamp landing page: https://academy.tekanaid.com/bootcamps/platform-engineering-bootcamp Parent course(s):
- Week 2: Linux Essentials for Platform Engineers (slug: linux-essentials-platform-engineers)
Set up your local development environment with Docker, Python, and Node.js for building TaskFlow.
This lab continues pushing your work to the same GitHub fork you set up in Project 1.5, every task that changes a file ends with a commit and push, so by the end of this lab your fork has a working Docker Compose test, a backend virtual environment installed from the canonical TaskFlow repo's pinned requirements.txt, an installed frontend built from that same repo's package.json, and a documented, reproducible environment behind it.
What You'll Learn
Install Docker and Docker Compose and validate them with a test container
Set up a Python virtual environment and install TaskFlow's pinned backend dependencies
Install Node.js and TaskFlow's pinned frontend dependencies
Verify and document a reproducible local development environment
Prerequisites
Completed Project 1.7 (TaskFlow Development Planning)
Completed the "Get Access to Your TaskFlow Repository" lesson (GitHub org access requested, taskflow forked)
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