Windows / Linux / Mac Global Installation

• Download the package on GitHub
• Add to your path

github: https://github.com/sass/dart-sass/releases/tag/1.43.4

If you have node.js

> npm install -g sass

Compiling code to CSS on the command line

Example:

> sass source/stylesheets/index.scss

> build/stylesheets/index.css

Using VSCode's extensions

• Use the live sass compiler extension which automatically compiles the .scss files to css
• Find it here: ritwickdey.live-sass

Setup a Java development environment

• https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/downloads
• Set up an environment variable JAVA_HOME with the path to your JDK installation
• Install an IDE (I recommend IntelliJ)

Go to start.spring.io to bootstrap your first Spring Boot project

• Pick the JVM language of your choice (in our guide we will stick with Java)
• Pick the dependency manager of your choice (in our guide we will stick with Maven)
• Choose your group, artifact ids, name, description, package name.
• Keep packaging as jar
• Java version shouldn’t matter but we’ll choose version 11
• Select the dependencies that you need on the right.
• Probably want Spring Web most of the time unless you want to try reactive web to leverage reactive programming
• Highly recommend Lombok for Java devs
• Click generate to generate the project

Note: you don’t need maven or gradle installed because Spring provides you with maven or gradle wrappers that make it possible to run maven or gradle commands without having it installed.