In order to work with Drupal 8 and to run the code examples found in this book, the following software will be required.

Web server software stack:

• Web server: Apache (recommended), Nginx, or Microsoft IIS
• Database: MySQL 5.5 or MariaDB 5.5.20 or higher
• PHP: PHP 5.5.9 or higher

Chapter 1, A Simple Smart Gardening System, details all of these requirements and includes a recipe highlighting an out of the box development server setup.

You will also need a text editor, following is a suggestion of popular editors and IDEs:

• Atom.io editor, https://atom.io/
• PHPStorm (specific Drupal integration), https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/
• Vim with Drupal configuration, https://www.drupal.org/project/vimrc

Your operating system’s default text editor or command line file editors

For more information on hardware retirements, you may refer Appendix section of this book