This is a guide for local development of a Julia package in Julia 1.0 and above.
tl;dr: We use a new environment to ensure that our regular Julia environment is not affected.
Navigate to ~/.julia/environments. This folder should contain the default environment. (I am currently working in Julia 1.0, so the environments folder contains the folder v1.0).
From the same folder, make a new project by running julia, then entering the Pkg repl by pressing ] from julia.
Upon entering the Pkg REPL, you should see a prompt like this: