In this chapter, we will set up your computer so that you can develop web applications using PHP and CouchDB. There are a lot of technologies that come into play when developing web applications, so we'll need to make sure that our systems are configured properly before we start writing the code.
In this chapter, we will:
Discuss your operating system and how to install the necessary components
Learn about the tools needed to develop PHP and CouchDB applications
Configure our web development environment
Learn about Homebrew and install CouchDB
Use Homebrew to install Git for version control
Confirm that you can make a request to CouchDB
Are you ready? Good! Let's get started by talking about operating systems and the role they play in setting up your development environment.