From the course: Learning Functional Programming with JavaScript ES6+

Basic setup - JavaScript Tutorial

From the course: Learning Functional Programming with JavaScript ES6+

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Basic setup

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- [Instructor] All right, well, one last thing before we get started here is, depending on how you're planning on following along, assuming, of course, that you are planning on following along, you're going to want to make sure that you have the latest version of Node.js installed. And you can do that by heading over to Node.js's website. And there's a link here to download Node.js, the LTS version, which you're going to want there. You can see that currently that's 20.18.0, but you might see a different number there, and that's all right too. As long as you have at least that version, everything should be good here. So, once you've done that, if you're going to follow along locally, you should be able to run the command node -v and see that version. You can see one minor version behind, but we'll just go with that. And you should also be able to run npm -v and see a version that looks something like what I have here. Now, that's if you're going to follow along locally. If you want to follow along using Codespaces, what you're going to want to do is head over to the repo for this course, and it might look a little bit different. The name might not be quite the same as what you see here, but you should just be able to click on the Code dropdown for that. Go to the Codespaces tab, and then there should be a button here that says Create codespace. You can see that I've already created one and they assign random, somewhat humorous names to them, as you can see. And the codespace is going to look an awful lot like Visual Studio Code. And if you want to follow along using this, it's going to make it a lot easier to check out the correct branches for the exercise files. But whether you want to do this locally or in Codespaces, that's up to you, and that should be all we need to do. Oh, and just one last thing, is that Codespaces should already have Node.js installed for you. You can see that we have the same versions there. npm -v. And that gives us pretty much the exact same thing actually, as what we had locally. So, anyway, now that we've gone over that, let's jump right in and get started.

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