Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "By clicking on the Splunk logo at the top left of the screen, we are brought to the home page,  http://localhost:8000/en-GB/app/launcher/home ."

A block of code is set as follows:

1 <dashboard> 
2   <label>SimpleXMLDashboard</label>

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

echo "# SplunkAppDev" >> README.md

New terms and important words are shown in bold. 

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

Tips and tricks appear like this.

For this book we have outlined the shortcuts for the Mac OX platform if you are using the Windows version you can find the relevant shortcuts on the WebStorm help page https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/help/keyboard-shortcuts-by-category.html.