Install the following software, modules, and applications on your computer.
Windows users: If asked during installation, select the option to update environment variables.
- Get a GitHub account: https://github.com/
- Install GitHub Desktop: https://desktop.github.com/ and Git Command Line: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git
- Install Node.js (4.x version) and NPM (3.3.10 version):
- Install Node and NPM through the package available on https://nodejs.org/en/download/ (By default, the 2.x version of NPM installs.)
- Upgrade NPM by calling the following in the terminal window:
npm install [email protected] -g
. For Unix, prefix the call withsudo
.
- You might need administrator permissions to run this command.
- Now, in your terminal, call:
node -v
to make sure you installed Node version 4.xnpm -v
to make sure you installed NPM version 3.3.10
- Install a text editor such as Atom or Sublime Text.
- For Windows only, install any 2 or 3 version of Python, available at: https://www.python.org/downloads/