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Project Setup

As always with Node project, we need to make sure our project is set up correctly before we start building our application.

The instructions below are all found in the project README File, but these are reproduced here for your convenience.

Getting started

Section titled “Getting started”
  1. Duplicate the file .env.example, and rename your duplicate to .env
  2. Open a new terminal from the VS Code menu - Terminal > New Terminal
  3. In your new terminal, type the following and hit return:
Terminal window
npm i

This process will take a while, so be patient 😴⏰

  1. Once you see the message that everything has been installed, type the following into the terminal and hit return:
Terminal window
npm run setup

Again, this will take a while, so be patient 😴⏰

  1. Finally, from the terminal again, type:
Terminal window
npm run dev

This will start the development server and you can view your project in a web browser by going to http://localhost:3000.

You should see a landing page that looks like this:

Initial landing screen

What’s next?

Section titled “What’s next?”

Now that you have your project set up, you’re ready to start building the Epic News project. Let’s get started!