From the course: Building a Website with Node.js and Express.js

Setting up your development environment

From the course: Building a Website with Node.js and Express.js

Start my 1-month free trial Buy for my team

Setting up your development environment

“

- [Instructor] Before we really get started, let's make sure that you have all the tools needed on your machine. First, let's install an editor. In this course, I will use Visual Studio Code. It's free, and it comes with great Node.js support out of the box. I highly recommend that you use it as well, at least for this course. To install it, use your favorite search engine to look for Visual Studio Code. Click on the download link for your operating system. I have it installed already. Let's open it right away, File, Open. And as you know, I placed the exercise files on my desktop, so I open it from right there. Visual Studio Code comes with great Git integration. And here on the bottom left, you see that we are currently on the master branch. And you also see that when I click on that, I can switch between all those different branches freely. So if I want to see the end of chapter three, video three, I just switch into this branch. But to get started, make sure that you stay on the master branch. Visual Studio Code comes with an integrated terminal that lets you run shell commands. Let's open it by selecting View, Terminal. And let's see which Node version we have installed here on this machine. So I type node -v, and you see that I have installed 12.13. That's the currently long-term supported version of Node.js. If you've got an error now, this means that you haven't installed Node.js already. So to install it, just head to the Node.js website, and install the currently long-term supported version. With that all said, you should be ready to now really get started with this course.

Contents