Bainbridge NodeSchool

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Welcome!

This is an online space for Nodeschool meetups on Bainbridge Island, Washington.

• Learn more about us at http://nodeschool.io/bainbridge

• # for our next event at: http://www.meetup.com/IslandJS-Nodeschool

• If you have any questions, use this form to contact us: https://github.com/nodeschool/bainbridge/issues

Background

We own the GitHub organization, IslandJS, which acts as a staging location for different projects used in our workshops on the island.

We also own a Meetup Page: http://www.meetup.com/IslandJS-Nodeschool and Domain: http://islandjs.org.

Finally, our Facebook community page, IslandJS, and Twitter Stream also helps to support these efforts to let more people know about the group and our upcoming workshops and meetings!

How To: Prepare for a NodeSchool meetup

Install Node

You can find an installer for your operating system at: https://nodejs.org/en/download/

Once installed, open a Shell, Terminal, or Command Prompt depending on your Operating System and enter the following commands to ensure you have installed everything correctly. You should see the versions of npm and node returned:

npm -v
node -v

Install your first Workshops

Once you have Node installed correctly, install the first two beginner workshops, learnyounode and javascripting:

• For Mac OS and Linux: sudo npm install -g learnyounode javascripting
  
• For Windows: Open Command Prompt as Administrator and run: npm install -g learnyounode javascripting
• Verify everything installed correctly by running learnyounode. You will see a menu like this:
  

There are lots of other workshops to choose from. Visit http://nodeschool.io for more information.

Set up your development environment

The easiest way to get started is to choose a good text editor designed for development purposes. If you already have a text editor you like to use, there is no need to read further. You are now ready for NodeSchool!

Otherwise, popular text editors include: Sublime, Atom, Brackets, VS Code, and Notepad++. Install any of those and we'll help you with the rest the next time we see you at a NodeSchool meetup.

Questions, problems, advice

If you run into any issues or have questions before joining us for a meetup, feel free to open an issue: https://github.com/nodeschool/bainbridge/issues.
If you have a technical issue getting Node or a Workshop installed, please be sure to include your Operating System and Node version as well to help with the troubleshooting.