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---
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title: 'Part 1: Prerequisites'
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---
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In this first part, I will get your up and running with the FreeSewing
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development environment.
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If you are familiar with JavaScript and its ecosystem, you can probably skip
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this section. If not, I have good news and bad news (and then some more good
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news) for you.
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The good news is that JavaScript is an easy language to pick up. It is also a
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very popular and versatile language and the skills you learn here will serve
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you well.
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The bad news is that the JavaScript ecosystem is vast, and unfortunately
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somewhat fractured. Most of the problems people need help with are not so much
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in the code itself, but rather getting everything to work together.
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This is true not just for FreeSewing, but pretty much all modern JavaScript.
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But, no need to despair, FreeSewing provides a development environment that
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will take care of all of this for you. So you can focus on designing patterns.
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If you have NodeJS on your system, getting that development environment up
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and running takes only a single command:
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```sh
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npx @freesewing/studio
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```
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If you don't have NodeJS on your system --- or if you're not sure what
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NodeJS is to begin with --- read on to learn how to install it.
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