Update dev environment instructions

Author: michaelosthege

README.md

@@ -109,16 +109,30 @@ As the schema and API stabilizes a mid-term goal might be to replace PyMC `BaseT
 Getting rid of `MultiTrace` was a [long-term goal](https://github.com/pymc-devs/pymc/issues/4372#issuecomment-770100410) behind making `pm.sample(return_inferencedata=True)` the default.
 
 ## Development
-First clone the repository and install `mcbackend` locally:
+
+First clone the repository and set up a development environment containing the protobuf compiler.
 
 ```bash
+mamba create -n mcb python=3.11 grpcio-tools protobuf -y
+activate mcb
+pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
+pip install --pre "betterproto[compiler]"
 pip install -e .
 ```
 
+To compile the `*.proto` files for languages other than Python, check the [ProtocolBuffers documentation](https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/tutorials).
+
+The following script compiles them for Python using the [`betterproto`](https://github.com/danielgtaylor/python-betterproto) compiler plugin to get nice-looking dataclasses.
+It also copies the generated files to the right place in `mcbackend`.
+
+```bash
+python protobufs/generate.py
+pre-commit run --all
+```
+
 To run the tests:
 
 ```bash
-pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
 pytest -v
 ```
 
@@ -128,19 +142,3 @@ To start one in Docker:
 ```bash
 docker run --detach --rm --name mcbackend-db -p 9000:9000 --ulimit nofile=262144:262144 clickhouse/clickhouse-server
 ```
-
-### Compiling the ProtocolBuffers
-If you don't already have it, first install the protobuf compiler:
-```bash
-conda install protobuf
-pip install --pre "betterproto[compiler]"
-```
-
-To compile the `*.proto` files for languages other than Python, check the [ProtocolBuffers documentation](https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/tutorials).
-
-The following script compiles them for Python using the [`betterproto`](https://github.com/danielgtaylor/python-betterproto) compiler plugin to get nice-looking dataclasses.
-It also copies the generated files to the right place in `mcbackend`.
-
-```bash
-python protobufs/generate.py
-```

requirements-dev.txt

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 arviz
 clickhouse-driver
 flake8
+pre-commit
+pymc==5.0.2
 pytest
 pytest-cov
 twine