Developer installation of esm-server and eao-public too complicated #506
Description
Setting up esm-server and eao-public should not require so many manual configuration steps.
Another project that has a smoother approach is MDS. See:
https://github.com/bcgov/mds/blob/develop/USAGE.md
https://github.com/bcgov/mds/blob/develop/Makefile
Which uses two commands, 'make local-dev' and 'make rebuild-all-local' to set up the local developer environment.
The approach needs to be able to run on Mac, Linux and Windows. MDS uses make but esm-server/eao-public does not need to use make, as long as whatever solution is created works on all three development platforms.
A nice to have would also be an additional separate script to set up the tools and prerequisites via package managers (brew, apt, rpm, and choco) so that VS Code is present with all the plugins needed to easily start making changes to the project.
Addressing this issue would help us facilitate community contribution.