Setting up a local development environment

[ronanstokes-db]

The question of how to set up a development environment came up in one of the issues regarding how to install the needed libraries on local environments.

Here is the response:

We use both conda and pipenv environments during development and test of the library - so both are supported.

The makefile has make targets to setup the environments

make create-dev-env

will make a conda based environment.

Once you activate the environment, you should then run `make install-dev-dependencies' to install the dev_requires.

Alternatively - use make buildenv to setup a pipenv based environment.