To follow along with this book, you need an installation of Drupal 8, preferably in a local development environment located on a Windows, Mac, or Linux-based computer. Documentation regarding setting up a local development environment is covered in Chapter 1, Developer Workflow, and can also be found at https://www.drupal.org/setting-up-development-environment.
To follow along with each lesson, you will need a text editor or IDE. To see a list of software to consider using when developing in Drupal 8, you can refer to https://www.drupal.org/node/147789.
Finally, you will need to have administrative access to your Windows, Mac, or Linux-based computer, with the ability to run a Terminal window that will allow you to execute various commands and install various items.
