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Setting up your development environment

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Setting up your development environment

Before you follow the development tutorials for creating a Zowe™ CLI plug-in, follow these steps to set up your environment.

Prerequisites​

Install Zowe CLI.

Initial setup​

To create your development space, clone and build zowe-cli-sample-plugin from source.

Before you clone the repository, create a local development folder named zowe-tutorial. You will clone and build all projects in this folder.

Branches​

There are two branches in the repository that correspond to different Zowe CLI versions. You can develop two branches of your plug-in so that users can install your plug-in into @latest or @zowe-v2-lts CLI. Developing for both versions will let you take advantage of new core features quickly and expose your plug-in to a wider range of users.

The master branch of Sample Plug-in is compatible with the @zowe-v2-lts version of core CLI (Zowe LTS release).

The master branch of Sample Plug-in is also compatible with the @latest version of core CLI (Zowe Active Development release) at this time.

For more information about the versioning scheme, see Maintainer Versioning in the Zowe CLI repository.

Clone zowe-cli-sample-plugin and build from source​

Clone the repository into your development folder to match the following structure:

zowe-tutorial
└── zowe-cli-sample-plugin

Follow these steps:

  1. cd to your zowe-tutorial folder.
  2. git clone https://github.com/zowe/zowe-cli-sample-plugin
  3. cd to your zowe-cli-sample-plugin folder.
  4. git checkout master
  5. npm install
  6. npm run build

(Optional) Run the automated tests​

We recommend running automated tests on all code changes. Follow these steps:

  1. cd to the __tests__/__resources__/properties folder.
  2. Copy example_properties.yaml to custom_properties.yaml.
  3. Edit the properties within custom_properties.yaml to contain valid system information for your site.
  4. cd to your zowe-cli-sample-plugin folder
  5. npm run test

Next steps​

After you complete your setup, follow the Installing the sample plug-in tutorial to install this sample plug-in to Zowe CLI.

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