Installing Node.js, npm, and Git — Your Foundation
Step-by-step instructions to install the three essential tools every web developer needs on Mac or Windows.
Before you can build anything, you need three tools installed on your computer. Think of them like this: if you were opening a restaurant, you'd need a kitchen, utensils, and a recipe book before you could cook anything. Node.js, npm, and Git are your kitchen, utensils, and recipe book.
Don't worry — this isn't complicated. We'll walk through every step together, and by the end of this lesson, you'll have everything you need to start building.
What Are These Tools?
Let's quickly understand what each one does before installing them.
Node.js is a runtime that lets your computer understand and execute JavaScript — the programming language that powers most of the web. When AI tools generate code for you, they're almost always generating JavaScript (or TypeScript, which is JavaScrip
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