Setup Development Environment
Video Lecture
Install VSCode IDE and Node
To verify that VSCode is correctly installed, open a command/terminal prompt and type
code -v
And it should show some version information, and not indicate an error such as The term 'code' is not recognized
To verify that npm is installed, type
npm -v
It should show some version information, and not indicate an error.
On Windows, your version should be 7 or higher.
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Troubleshooting
Since October 4, 2021, NPM versions on before version 7, will produce an error stating that TLS 1.2 or higher must be used when installing packages.
If you see TLS related errors when installing packages, try re-installing to the latest LTS version of Node.js by using the official download options on the Node.js website at https://nodejs.org/en/download/
Or, you could try upgrading to the latest version of NPM using the command line,
npm install -g npm
or (depending on your existing version of NPM)
npm install --location=global npm
Then test your version is at least version 7 or higher.
npm -v
#10.5.0
The problem exists since older versions of NPM (I.e., version 6.#.#) would contain registry settings using the http:// protocol, but now they must all be using the https:// protocol instead.