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Prepare your development environment

Prepare your development environment

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Prepare your development environment

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- [Instructor] Before we can really kick things off, we first have to make sure that your development machine has all the software needed to be installed. We'll take care of this in this chapter. Please follow along with me and we will be done with that very quickly. First of course, we have to have node js installed on our system. I installed the current long-term supported or LTS version. To verify my installation, I head over into the terminal and type node -v and I get the currently installed version. So we are good to go with node js. During this course, we will use Mongo DB as a database. Depending on your operating system, setting it up can be quite complicated. That's why I decided to use Docker here. Docker allows you to run independent containers on your system, and it comes with a large repository. It's ready to run configurations. If you are completely unfamiliar to databases in node js, I recommend you…

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