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RE: Part 2: Building a To-do list with EOS
Author here. (Tyler) A lot of people seem to be facing this same issue– they're OK with picking up smart contract development, but setting up the local environment is so cumbersome that they put it off. We're considering ways to either help with this directly or find a tool the community produces to recommend in our future tutorials.
@katteasis I have a Windows machine but I set up a separate Ubuntu instance running inside of Virtual Box. I prefer this setup because it keeps everything in a separate container as the EOS project installs a ton of dependencies that I don't need commingled with the rest of my files, and I can always destroy and re-create instances if something goes awry. Additionally (optional), I bought more RAM and moved this VM to a separate SSD, so its like I'm running two separate computers off my CPU without any loss of performance, and for little cost. Nsjames of Scatter made a good video describing how to do this:
https://github.com/nsjames/Scatter-Tutorials/blob/master/setup.md
I tried vmware or sth like that long before but that didn't work well for me that's why I am hesitating to go through the virtual machine. Anyway, how much free RAM do we need to have to run EOS with this method?