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Tools and my setup

This course is recorded with the following tools, you can optionally follow along using the same, or your favourite text editor/IDE and browser.

Text editor: Visual Studio Code, you can download it here for both Mac, Windows and Linux.

- (VSCode Plugin) VSCode Icons: Link here

Browser: Google Chrome, you can download it here.

Prerequisites

Please make sure that you have the following installed:

  • Install the latest version of Node.js (Mac or Windows)
    • Mac users can optionally brew install node if they have brew installed

To install the project dependencies, you will need to install Yarn. If you have already installed Yarn, be sure to upgrade to the latest version. To install yarn, run the following in your terminal:

npm install -g yarn

Mac users can alternatively use brew to install yarn.

brew update brew install yarn

If you experience any issues when installing/using yarn you can checkout the installation instructions here.