Onboarding Process for Team Cylon Developers

Necessary Software:

• Your editor of choice (typically Visual Studio Code or Intellij IDEA Community Edition)
• Git version control CLI: Git
• Java - Version 11*
• NodeJS - Version 16*

_{* Save the installation path for each program}

Setting Up Your Environment Variables:

Windows:

1. Create a new system variable named: JAVA_HOME
   • Set it's value to your installed Java path e.g. C:\ProgramFiles\AdoptOpenJDK\jdk-xxx
2. Edit your existing PATH system variable, and add:
   • Your node installed path e.g. C:\ProgramFiles\nodejs
   • Your "JAVA_HOME" environment variable %JAVA_HOME%\bin
3. Click "Ok"

Mac:

1. Within a terminal find the path to your .bash_profile by using ~/.bash-profile and open it with open ~/.bash_profile
   • If not found execute:
     • touch ~/.bash_profile
     • open ~/.bash_profile

All within .bash_profile

1. Create a new system variable named JAVA_HOME with: export JAVA_HOME=<installed_java_path>
   • e.g. export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/bin/AdoptOpenJDK/jdk-xxx
2. Edit your existing PATH system variable by adding:
   • Your node installed path e.g. export PATH=/usr/local/bin/nodejs:$PATH
   • Your "JAVA_HOME" environment variable e.g. export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
3. Save and close .bash_profile
4. Within your terminal execute source ~/.bash-profile

_{Each export command should be on it's own line within .bash_profile}