HACKER Q&A
📣 break_the_bank

How does your development loop look like?


1. Do you run the binary/service locally at all?

2. If you do; how do you run it and where do you run it from?

3. How do you pass configuration to the binary/service?

4. How do you setup services that your binary/service depends on?

5. How do you run debugging loops? Print statements? Debuggers?

I have a pretty simple setup where I use an IDE to run tests but to run the binary I use my terminal. For debugging I usually use the debugger built into the IDE. Back when I wrote CPP I used gdb but I do prefer the visual debuggers that Jetbrains ships their IDEs with.

  👤 PaulHoule Accepted Answer ✓
1. Yes

2. Sometimes the run button of the IDE, sometimes the command line

3. Database connection parameters, API keys and such go in a .dotfile; parameters that might change from run to run usually go in command line argument; special flags for debugging go in environment variables

4. Usually I've got a database (pgsql, arangodb) running as a "service" in the operating system on the local machine. In one case I start up an antivirus server that one application needs.

👤 smt88
What stack do you use? It sounds like you don't use a debugger, which is like hearing that someone is searching a dark cave without a flashlight.