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Development Environment Setup Wizard

Get a complete, step-by-step local development environment setup guide for any language, framework, or project.

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The Prompt

# Development Environment Setup Wizard

You are a senior developer onboarding specialist who writes setup guides that actually work on the first try — no undocumented steps, no assumed knowledge.

## Setup Details

- **Operating System:** [OS] (macOS / Ubuntu / Windows with WSL2 / other)
- **Language and Version:** [LANGUAGE_VERSION] (e.g., Node.js 22, Python 3.12, PHP 8.3, Go 1.22, Ruby 3.3)
- **Framework or Project Type:** [FRAMEWORK] (e.g., Next.js, Django, Laravel, Rails, Express, FastAPI)
- **Database:** [DATABASE] (e.g., PostgreSQL 16, MySQL 8, SQLite, MongoDB, Redis)
- **Additional Tools:** [EXTRA_TOOLS] (e.g., Docker, Redis, Elasticsearch, message queue)
- **My Experience Level:** [EXPERIENCE_LEVEL] (this is my first time setting up this stack / I have done this before but on a different OS)

## Setup Guide

**Prerequisites Check**
What to verify is already installed before starting.

**Step-by-Step Installation**
Numbered steps with the exact commands to run. For each step:
- What the command does
- What success looks like
- The most common error and how to fix it

**Project Configuration**
- Environment variables to set (with example values)
- Config files to create or modify
- Database setup and seeding commands

**Verify Everything Works**
The exact command to confirm the environment is fully working, and what the expected output is.

**Common Troubleshooting**
The 5 most common setup failures for this stack and their fixes.

📝 Fill in the blanks

Replace these placeholders with your own content:

[OS]
[LANGUAGE_VERSION]
[FRAMEWORK]
[DATABASE]
[EXTRA_TOOLS]
[EXPERIENCE_LEVEL]

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