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 # DrawMyLife-Website
-A website showcasing the Draw My Life initiative, partnerships and team
+A static website showcasing the Draw My Life initiative, partnerships and team
+
+## Development Setup
+This website lives and is rendered on the client side. To get up and running with the development of this project there are a few prerequisites, i.e. you need to have node and Ruby installed on your local machine.
+
+### Why do I need Node and Ruby installed?
+Ruby is required for Jekyll and Node will help you massively with all the javascript (see Tech Stack for more details).
+
+### Tech Stack
+| React         | Jekyll        |   
+| :-----------: |:-------------:|
+| Webpack       | Yarn          |
+
+##### Please note that all Javascript is written in ECMAScript2015 (ES6).
+
+### How to install the Stack and all the dependencies
+As mentioned in the Development setup intro there are some prerequisites required before you can begin work on the project.
+
+#### Jekyll
+_{ installation instructions to go here }_
+
+#### Yarn
+Yarn is a javascript package management for all dependencies. It will be used to add and remove all javascript dependencies from this project.
+
+- You'll need to have [Yarn](https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/install) installed globally on your local machine. This can be installed via [homebrew](http://brew.sh/)
+- To install all the dependencies for this project you will need to `yarn install` on the command line
+- To add a dependency `yarn add {dependency}` on the command line.
+- If it's a development dependency add the flag `--dev`. Example `yarn add {dependency} --dev` to save to the `package.json`
+- If it's a production dependency add the flag `--save`. Example `yarn add {dependency} --save` to save to the `package.json`
+
+##### React and Webpack are dependencies and will be installed during the installation of all javascript dependencies, i.e. `yarn install`
+
+### Building the project
+It's probably best to have two terminal tabs open, as you will need to build and transpile your React components; and then Jekyll will serve it to your local host.
+
+#### Building the React Components
+To build and tranpile the React Components you will need to run the command `webpack` in your command line
+
+#### Serving the project to your local host
+To build and serve the entire project so you can see local changes you will need to run the command `jekyll serve` in the command line and visit `http://localhost:4000` to see the changes. 
+
+### Linting
+To ensure we have less error prone code we are using two linting dependencies to highlight any errors as we code: `eslint` and `sass-lint`. It is recommended that you also get a local linters for your IDE or text editor.
+
+*Example of Linters*
+
+|            | Atom                                                          |  Sublime                |
+| :--------- |:--------------------------------------------------------------| :---------------------- |
+| ESLint     | [Atom ESLint](https://atom.io/packages/eslint)                | {I need to find one 😂} |
+| SASS-Lint  | [linter-sass-lint](https://atom.io/packages/linter-sass-lint) | {See above}             |