20. Setting up your IDE¶

This section outlines the process for configuring your IDE for development.

🚩 Make sure you have gone through the Cloning Section before following these notes.

20.1 VS Code Setup¶

Open the project in VSCode (1️⃣, 2️⃣) by navigating the the place on your file system where you checked out the code in the pre-requisites step above (3️⃣).

Accept the 'trust authors' prompt

20.1.1 Copying the .env¶

Copy the template.env to .env Edit the .env file and change the

DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=core.settings.prod

DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=core.settings.dev

🪧 Now that you have your IDE set up, we can move on to building the project.