Fundamentals

• Use Powershell 7 if you have to

• make sure to use metals for scala extension

• have docker installed

• ./mill mill.scalalib.Dependency/showUpdates to check for dependency updates.

dev and testing

• docker-compose up to start the postgres dev container.
• cd frontend && npm run dev to have vite watch for changes and automatically restart the frontend server.
• ./mill -w backend.runBackground to watch for changes and automatically restart the backend server.
• ./mill -w frontend.fastLinkJS to compile and copy over the frontend javascript.
• docker exec -it cocksmith-db-1 psql -U docker to connect to the postgres instance. You then connect to the database with \c <database_name>.

WSL

# install coursier, jvm, scala
curl -fL https://github.com/coursier/coursier/releases/latest/download/cs-x86_64-pc-linux.gz | gzip -d > cs && chmod +x cs && ./cs setup
# install mill - actually you need the powershell version, but leaving this for linux
curl -L https://github.com/com-lihaoyi/mill/releases/download/0.10.15/0.10.15 > mill && chmod +x mill
# install nvm
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.40.3/install.sh | bash
# install node
nvm install 22