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+++ title = "Local Project Setup" date = 2024-08-23T09:00:00Z draft = false summary="Learning Foundry VTT Module Development from the very start. In this session: setting up the local project." categories = ['Technical', 'FoundryVTT', 'Foundry VTT for Module Developers'] prev = ['/post/fvtt-mod-dev-github-repository-setup/'] +++

Having cloned our Github repository to our local development machine we now set up some basic tooling that will help later as we develop our module.

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In this session we set up:

• npm, initialising our project.
• husky to marshal our git hook scripts.
• commitizen to enforce standard git log messages.

These tools provide some 'guardrails' on our project that, although they may seem onerous now, will pay dividends later by facilitating:

• The production of consistent a changlog for our release notes (poviding users and other developers with timely and accurate details of what changes occur to our module).
• Management of our release versioning.

A few minutes of setup now will save hours over the life of our module.