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Development Environment

Required Hardware​

  • For the local AI model, a machine with
    • at least 8GB of ram
    • at least 12GB of storage.

Tools​

  • IDE
    • Visual Studio Code for extension development
      • Visual Studio Extension Test Runner
    • Any text editor for other development
  • AI
    • Ollama
      • Tool to run different AI models
  • Package Managers
    • Pip for Python
    • Npm for Visual Code Extension
  • Documentation Generators
    • TypeDoc
      • HTML documentation generator for Typescript
    • Sphinx
      • HTML documentation generator for Python
    • Flasgger
      • OpenAPI spec generator for Flask API

Languages​

  • Python
    • Flask for creating the API
  • Typescript
    • For extension development

Testing​

  • Postman
    • For API endpoint testing
  • Pytest
    • For Python testing
  • Test-electron and Test-cli
    • For extension testing