Environment Setup

StartOS server

You will need a StartOS server to test your package. Follow the flashing guide to install StartOS on a physical device or VM.

Docker

Docker is needed to convert the docker image to a StartOS image.

Make

Make is used streamline builds and produce an s9pk.

NodeJS

NodeJS is needed to compile the Typescript in your StartOS package.

start-cli

start-cli is needed to interact with StartOS from the command line.

Clone the start-os repo

https://github.com/Start9Labs/start-os.git

Build start-cli
```
make cli
```
Initialize start-cli
```
start-cli init
```
This will generate a .startos directory inside your home directory. This directory will contain a newly-generated developer.key.pem, used to sign packages, as well as a default config.yaml, which can be edited to customize and streamline your developer experience.