There is a section of the Preface on "Configuring Your Development Environment", seems pretty complete to me.
If audience is whom who doesn't know anything about LISP, you've lost time to go around to find things you want.
Other languages have playground, or at least INSTALLING at the chapter 1. It should answer some IMPORTANT questions:
- How to install the compiler
- Which IDE best to use, or which extension.
- How to install packages, how to build it.
Literally everything you're asking for is in that link. The author has the opinion that you don't need fancy IDE features which is an arguable point but they do list what editors for each OS work in their experience.