Prerequisites

Part III of the Series Web Development for Experienced (Non-Web) Software Engineers

This post outlines the tools and services required for the series. Bold is Recommended for this series. I’ll write more later to elaborate some of the choices.

• Device: (PC or Mac for Devs)
  • Windows 10 PC
  • Mac
• Software:
  • IDE:
    • Visual Studio 19 (Community)
    • Visual Studios Code
  • Source Control:
    • Git (with VS19)
  • DB related:
    • SQLServer Object Explorer (with VS19)
    • Microsoft Azure Storage Emulator
    • Azure Data Studio
    • MySQL Shell, MySQL Workbench
    • sqlite Manager (FireFox plugin)
  • Browsers:
    • Chrome
    • Edge (new)
    • FireFox (for sqlite Manager)
  • Others:
    • Terminal (or CMD)
    • Fiddler (for debugging)
• Services:
  • Microsoft Account
  • Outlook (or hotmail) Mail Account
  • Azure Account
  • Azure Devops Account

Wow, that’s a lot of downloads just to get started using one platform. Imagine how much more will need to download and update if we use different tech stack.