First-time contributor environment check script

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Feature Spec

When someone first tries to contribute to Wing, it is possible that even after forking the repository and setting up any required tools, they may see errors when they run npm run build. Usually these errors are hard to debug because they may be due to either a missing tool, or a tool being installed with a wrong version.

To minimize this pain, we can add a short script that runs before everything else which checks if all required tools (node, rust, docker, etc.) are ready and available on the user's system with the correct versoins.

Checklist:

• OS
• Node version
• Npm version
• Rust version
• Rustfmt version(?)
• Docker installed and running

If any of the items in the check list fail, we can throw an error (overridable via environment variable) and provide some helpful messaging about how to fix the given issue.

Use Cases

Improve the first time contributing experience

Implementation Notes

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Component

Contributor Experience