To follow along with this book, you need an installation of Drupal 8, preferably in a local development environment located on a Windows, Mac, or Linux-based computer. Documentation regarding setting up a local development environment can be found at https://www.drupal.org/setting-up-development-environment. Specific system requirements are listed at https://www.drupal.org/requirements. An introduction to MAMP for Windows and Mac is also covered in Chapter 1, Setting Up Our Development Environment.

To follow along with each lesson, you will need a text editor or IDE. To see a list of software to consider when developing in Drupal 8 you can refer to https://www.drupal.org/node/147789.