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Git: What is it and why?
Git is a version control system and GitHub is an internet hosting service using the version control that Git provides. If you are not familiar with Git, you can find a great presentation on what Git is here. Some other resources include common git commands, CLI commands, and what Git is (if you get the gist you do not need to read through all of it).
In order to set up Git on your computer please follow these steps (after creating a GitHub account if you do not already have one). Make sure to do the authentication step so that your computer is tied to your GitHub account.
Now that you have Git installed and have a GitHub account, clone the repository from here to your computer, potentially using
git clonein your preferred CLI (i.e. Terminal/Powershell; please use Powershell over Command Prompt on Windows) to pull the project down to your computer.
NodeJS: Version
1416 PleaseEnsure that you have Node.js v16 installed (14 also works though, 18 doesn’t). Any iteration of version 16 will do as long as it is version 16! [Note: as of September 2022, this is the LTS version found on the main download page. For the future, if this is not an iteration of version 16, either scroll down on this page and search for it manually or download the package for your operating system from this link.] https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v16.16.0/
Check the box to install any additional tools during installation to ensure functionality with VSCode while installing (don’t worry if there are a couple errors here - this tends to happen on new installs).
After installation, confirm that the version is some variant of 16 with the command
node -v.
NPM & Yarn
Navigate to the folder of the cloned repository using your CLI (via the cd command).
If you’re on Windows: run
Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSignedto prevent some future problems with yarnIn your CLI, run
npm install -g yarn.Run
yarn installto instruct npm to install all the necessary packages.
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