Building a Raspberry Pi

Install Raspberry Pi Imager

Go to https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/ and download the dmg file.
Double-click the dmg file to open the installer
Drag the Raspberry Pi Imager icon into the applications folder.

I am having issues with the SD card being corrupted -- looks like a common problem if the Pi is not shut down correctly, which I usually always do. Although, this latest incident happened after a sudo apt-get update failed.

Format SD Card

Using the Raspberry Pi Imager, format an SD Card with the desired Raspbian OS - for this go-round, I created a 64-bit Raspbian Desktop image.

Insert the SD Card and Boot the Pi

This worked well. The start-up asks a few basic questions, and then immediately allows pairing of bluetooth devices, which was a huge plus! No more fishing around for keyboard shortcuts because I no longer own a USB mouse!

What's more, this version of Raspbian comes with git pre-installed. Nice.

Install Git

Check out github documentation on the subject here.

Check if git is on the Pi and install it if it isn't.
```
git --version
sudo apt update
sudo apt install git
```

Configure

git config --list
git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email "youremail@yourdomain.com"

Check for/create ssh key

ls -lAF ~/.ssh

If there is not a key file, generate one:

ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "youremail@yourdomain.com"
eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_ed25519

Add ssh key to github

Copy the key to the clipboard
```
cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub
```
Go to GitHub Settings > Access > SSH and GPG keys and add the new key. Then test your connection:
```
ssh -T git@github.com
```

Clone a project

cd ~
mkdir Projects && cd Projects
git clone git@github.com:thompsgr/vanillaordie.git

Install Node

I have done this with npm and with n in the past. I noticed there is now a node manager built in Rust! For this build, I decided to stick as close to the official installation documentation as possible, which I found here: https://github.com/nodesource/distributions.

Install using curl

curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_19.x | bash - 
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs