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

Clone and build your project

1. Create a local development folder named zowe-tutorial to clone and build all projects in this folder.

2. 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

   1. Open a terminal and enter cd zowe-tutorial to change directory into your zowe-tutorial folder.
   2. Enter git clone https://github.com/zowe/zowe-cli-sample-plugin to clone the zowe-cli-sample-plugin repository.
   3. Enter cd zowe-cli-sample-plugin to change directory into your zowe-cli-sample-plugin folder.
   4. Enter npm install to install all dependencies and modules for the project.
   5. Enter npm run build to create a production build.

Optional step: Run automated tests

We recommend running automated tests on all code changes.

To run automated tests:

1. Use Visual Studio Code or your file explorer to copy the content in the example_properties.yaml file to the custom_properties.yaml file.
2. Use a text editor to edit the properties within custom_properties.yaml to contain valid system information for your site.
3. In a terminal, enter cd zowe-cli-sample-plugin to change directory into your zowe-cli-sample-plugin folder.
4. Enter npm run test to run the automated 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.