From the course: Developing RAG Apps with LlamaIndex and Next.js

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Set up dev environment: Node.js instructions

Set up dev environment: Node.js instructions

From the course: Developing RAG Apps with LlamaIndex and Next.js

Set up dev environment: Node.js instructions

So for this course, you need to set up your development environment, and here's what you need. Obviously, you need to have a script. In this case, TypeScript to be precise. You'll have to have Node.js installed on your machine. Also, VS Code or any code editor that you prefer, but I use VS Code, and you should check it out if you haven't. And of course, you will need to have an OpenAI account, as well as an OpenAI API key, because that's what we're going to be using in this course. Now, as you will see, as we go through this course, the OpenAI API key, which means we're going to be using GPT-3 or GPT-4 models. That's just the easiest way for us to use them. But the beauty of Llama Index, again, as you will see, is that you can actually plug in any model that you want. But for just simplicity, OpenAI is just the easiest way to go. So you need that. Okay. So about the OpenAI API account, of course, will need to have that account, which means you will have to have account before you can…

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