There are some assumptions that I'm making about you, I assume that you already have node and NPM installed on your machine. There you have a decent text editor. And then you have a web browser. If you do not have all three of these things set up on your computer already. You it's important that you stop now and take care of that before continuing on with the course. Now if you need to install No, you can simply go to node j s.org, and download the installer for your operating system.

I do recommend however, that you use a package manager to install Node. This ensures that you can install the most recent version of node NPM. And then in the future, you can update your version of node. If you're using a Mac, you can use homebrew which I recommend. And if you're using Windows you can use chocolaty or scoop. If you need a text editor, I recommend Visual Studio code which works on both Mac and Windows or Sublime Text which is also an excellent text editor that works on Mac and Windows as well.

If you need a web browser, I highly recommend Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, both of which work on Mac OS and Windows.