ABSTRACT
This chapter is one of the “necessary evils” of modern web development. For better or worse, more and more projects are becoming reliant on build script and configuration files for them to properly run. This means it is becoming increasingly hard to simply open up a text editor, maybe download a few files, and get to coding. Instead, there is often some time spent in a command prompt (or terminal), setting up the project and getting it ready to go. And even after the initial setup, it will be impossible to work without the command line open and running something. This chapter explains the tools that are used to get all this configuration done and the setup of a file that will get one working on the cutting edge of web development (though the web moving is fast as it does, it will not likely stay that way for long).
