From the course: Building Modern Projects with React

Installing necessary software

From the course: Building Modern Projects with React

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Installing necessary software

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- [Instructor] We're going to start off here by installing the major tools necessary for this course and that's Node.js and NPM. These will be really important for running our code and installing a few libraries we'll be using to make our programming easier. So if you don't already have these things installed you can download the installer from Node.js's website, nodejs.org. All you have to do is pick a version to download and then once it's downloaded fully, you just click on the installer and it should take you through the steps required for installation. And if you're using Windows or a Unix distribution these steps might be a little different but Node.js's website has instructions for all of these as well. Once you've run the installer, you'll want to make sure that you have the most recent version of NPM installed. We'll be using a few libraries in this course and NPM is a package manager for Node.js that allows us to easily install them. If you've ever done React development before you've definitely used NPM. So to install the most recent version of NPM just open your terminal and type npm install -g npm. And you might need to add sudo before this. And once you've done that, you can just type npm -v and it should show a version that's at least as high as mine. Don't worry too much if your version is higher than mine since everything should still run correctly in that case. And that should be all we really need to do right now. We now have Node.js and NPM installed.

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