# Prerequisite

In order to create and deploy your app, you must have installed the items below.

# Visual Studio Code

This is not a hard requirement. You can choose your own preferred IDE. But if you have not made a choice yet, we recommend to install Visual Studio Code.

Download and install from: https://code.visualstudio.com/download

Install the Vetur extension. Do CTRL-SHIFT-X in Visual Studio Code, search for 'vetur' and click on the install button. If you use Vuetify also install the extension vuetify-vscode.

# Spring Tool Suite

Microservices are created as Spring Boot applications in Spring Tool Suite. Download and install this from https://spring.io/tools/sts

# Node JS and NPM

Download and install from: https://nodejs.org/en/ Check the version in your terminal:

$ node --version

$ npm --version

# Cloud Foundry CLI

To deploy your app to SCP-CF you will need the Cloud Foundry CLI.

Download and install from: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/cli#downloads
Check the version in your terminal:

$ cf --version

Update with installer from download site https://github.com/cloudfoundry/cli#downloads

# Vue CLI

To create Vue apps we will need the Vue CLI
Install with npm:

$ npm install -g @vue/cli

Check the version in your terminal:

$ vue --version

For updating

$ npm update @vue/cli -g

# SAP NPM registry

To let npm be able to find the SAP npm packages (which we will be using), we must register the @sap-scoped npm packages

$ npm config set @sap:registry https://npm.sap.com/

This creates a .npmrc file in your root (Windows: C:\Users\<USER>).

To check out which packages SAP provides, type the following in your terminal:

$ npm search --registry  https://npm.sap.com/ sap

# More info

• read the blog from Sven Kohlhaas: https://blogs.sap.com/2017/05/16/sap-npm-registry-launched-making-the-lives-of-node.js-developers-easier/