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-# thrrgilag's personal development environment
 This is my attempt to document how my current development space for Goober is setup
 
 ## Node.js
+Currently builds only work with Node v10, I suspect mostly a result of the older version of Ionic that is being used.  I'm using Node Version Manager ([NVM](https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm#installation-and-update)) manage my local node install.
+
+```bash
+nvm install v10.17.0
+npm install -g cordova ionic@3
+```
+
+## Java
+I'm using the OpenJDK 8 development packages available for my system (currently Ubuntu 19.10).
+
+```bash
+sudo apt install openjdk-8-jdk
+```
+
+## Gradle
+The latest binary install from https://gradle.org/ which at the time of this document is 5.6.4 works just fine. Unzip into a suitable location and add to your path.
 
 ## Android