Building a web server: Installing the right software

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Visual Studio Code

On the topic of directory structure we've kept our server very basic. To keep with Mac conventions we decided to keep all our files in the ~/Documents folder. For my son's projects we're going to be running the infrastructure with Kubernetes, so we named the directory for all his code phippy. With code cloned to our machine we wanted to have just a single GUI-based code editor. We chose VS Code.

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Homebrew

In this post we're going to prepare the software to run our web server. As is the case when I set up most Macs, my first install is the Homebrew package manager. They have instructions on their site for how to install, and once you have Homebrew set up most of the rest of your software can be installed with a brew install in your Terminal. With the exception of our next piece of software.

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