Set up your local environment (Mac)

- [Instructor] Let's take a look at the software requirements for this course. You'll need to install Xcode. We won't be using Xcode directly but some of the libraries that come with installation. You need Homebrew installed so we can install software in an easier manner. We'll be using the fish shell that we'll install with Brew and just follow the instructions to set it up. We'll be using Git indirectly with Composer and if you follow along until part two of this course, we will be using it directly.

Be sure to have a Github account if you don't have one already. For our code, we'll need Visual Studio Code installed. For ease of use, we'll install MAMP with PHP 7 but only to have MySQL installed. We won't be using either Apache or NGINX since we'll be using PHP's internal server. For dependency installation, we'll use Composer. Be sure to follow the installation instructions on the website.

For the second part of this course, we'll be using VirtualBox and Vagrant. Be sure that the MySQL server is running. Make sure the PHP executable is the correct one. PHP --version, let's also verify that Git is installed with Git --version and composer --version.

Since we'll be using MySQL installed with MAMP, our root password will be root. MySQL -u root -proot. If you're going to follow this course on a Windows box, make sure to watch the next video.