Setup

Putting together a dev environment for hikeshi.

Before we get started

Thanks for your interest in Hikeshi! We welcome contributions and want to make the process of building the project as easy as using it.

Requirements

To develop Hikeshi there aren't many requirements so this should be quick.

1. Install task - Recommended

Task is make for people obsessed with YAML and GO. That's how you'll execute all of the development commands.

TaskTask

Instructions for installing task on your system can be found here.

2. Setup Go - Required

Go is language this project is built with so you'll need that to build, format, run, and test any changes.

Download and install - The Go Programming Languagegolang

3. Setup Buffalo - Required

Buffalo is the ecosystem Hikeshi works within. It's a wonderful project that brings the productivity Ruby developers experience with Rails into the amazing world of Go.

Buffalo – Rapid Web Development in Gogobuffalo.io

4. Download Hikeshi - Required

For the final installation steps, follow the usual download instructions documented on the Installation page.

Installation