Unit 0: Foundations & setup

Time: ~30 minutes • Lessons: 4 • Modality: onboarding (concepts + get running)

Understand what Bowire is, learn the two deployment shapes as a concept, get a workbench running, and see how the bootcamp is organised into courses and units. Every course starts here — by the end you have Bowire open in your browser, so the units after this can assume it's up.

Lessons

Lesson Topic What You'll Learn
0.1 What is Bowire? Multi-protocol API workbench; how it positions vs Postman / Insomnia / Bruno; when to reach for it
0.2 The two deployment shapes Standalone CLI vs embedded host — the mental model and the decision criteria
0.3 Get Bowire running The least-ceremony path to an open workbench (embedded sample / CLI / embed in your host)
0.4 How this bootcamp works Courses → units → lessons; one modality per unit; how to pick your course

Why this unit

Before any course you need two things: a clear mental model (what Bowire is, the two shapes) and a running workbench — you have to set up somewhere, and Unit 0 is that somewhere, before the courses branch. Setup here is deliberately minimal onboarding; the deep CLI story is Unit 3 and the deep embedded story is Unit 4.

Where to go next

After Unit 0 you have a workbench open and know the lay of the land. Jump to the first unit of your course:

See Learning Paths for the full course compositions.

Next: → Lesson 0.1: What is Bowire?