3. Development Tooling

Antora, our publishing system that converts asciidoc source to HTML, is based on the Node.js runtime.

You need to install Node.js on your local workstation, and perform several steps to configure a development environment.

Install Node.js

On mac OS, install node using homebrew:

brew install node

On Fedora and RHEL based systems, use dnf:

sudo dnf install nodejs

On Ubuntu and Windows WSL2, use apt:

sudo apt install nodejs npm

Install Visual Studio Code

You can use any editor or IDE to edit asciidoc source code. However, we recommend Visual Studio Code for working on quick courses.

Go to https://code.visualstudio.com/ and install Visual Studio Code for your platform.