I would like to see this broken down in small building blocks, reduced to first principles.
Personally, I'm an old fart, close to retirement. And I'm in a strange dichotomy.
On the one side, I understand the value of CI/CD, TDD, and everything that goes with that. (And it's a lot).
On the other side, I haven't really kept up with IDEs, and when I write code, it's in some sort of vim (or even vi as that's what I started with).
I tried IDEs, and I might decide to like one, but really, I'd like a break down so I can understand every part of the toolchain.
Give me the tools and the docs, and some examples, and I'll figure it out.
What I'm afraid of, and that really happened with my attempts at understanding the toolkits for VS modding, is that deep rabbit hole,
where I want to do X, and end up needing to fix W first, then U, then T, etc...
There's a hole in my bucket, dear Lisa, ...