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Changes to tutorial documentation: 1. Changed instances of `yarn` to `npm`. Remove references to installing `yarn`. 2. Changed instances of `@freesewing/new-design` to `@freesewing/studio`. 3. Changed instances of "lab" to "development environment" and `npm run lab` to `npm run org`. 4. Changed instances of Node v18.17.0 to v20.19.1. ~(I think I might have missed it in one spot. I'll submit a future PR for it.)~ I did not touch the Getting "Started with Vercel" and "Getting Started with Codespaces" tutorials. I need to take a closer look at these to see if they are still relevant or if we might want to remove them. Co-authored-by: Benjamin Fan <ben-git@swinglonga.com> Reviewed-on: https://codeberg.org/freesewing/freesewing/pulls/278 Reviewed-by: Joost De Cock <joostdecock@noreply.codeberg.org> Co-authored-by: Benjamin Fan <benjamesben@noreply.codeberg.org> Co-committed-by: Benjamin Fan <benjamesben@noreply.codeberg.org>
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title: Installing NodeJS
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---
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FreeSewing is a JavaScript project, so you need JavaScript to work with it.
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You certainly already have JavaScript on your system. In your browser to be
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precise. You can switch this website theme from light to dark mode, and
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that would not work without JavaScript.
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As a **user** of FreeSewing, this is all you need. To develop with FreeSewing
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you are going to need to be able to run JavaScript _outside_ the browser using
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a JavaScript _runtime_. Which just means a thing that can _run_ JavaScript.
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We are going to be using [NodeJS](https://nodejs.org/) in this tutorial. It is
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the most established of the different JavaScript runtimes. But there's also
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other runtimes like [Deno](https://deno.com/) or [Bun](https://bun.sh/).
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## Install
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If you don't have NodeJS on your system, you can go to
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[NodeJS.org](https://nodejs.org/) and follow the install instructions.
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:::tip
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##### NodeJS versions
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You need Node.js 20 (lts/iron) or higher to use FreeSewing
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If you're looking to use different versions, I can recommend using `nvm` which makes this very easy: https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm
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:::
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## Test
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To test whether NodeJS is installed, and see it's version, you can run this command:
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```sh
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node -v
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```
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If you get the Node.js version number, that means NodeJs is installed. Yay!
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