In this section, we are going to prepare the environment for PDF and eBook generation. We are going to install Docker, a famous containerization software that allows us to run applications as containers across all platforms.

Once you have Docker up and running, we will walk through the process of downloading and running Pandoc, a universal document converter tool, as a container on our local machine.

The Pandoc tool allows us to convert a massive number of different text formats into another format. Among the supported formats is markdown, which is what we are using for our Electron editor application.

Let's start with the Docker installation process.