Node.js

If you are not planning to change the codebase, you don´t have to read on.

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PATHFINDER comes along with a simple, Gulp based, build process.

Gulp is a NPM module, therefore we need to install Node.js with NPM first.

1. Install Node.js ≥ v12.16.0 with NPM ≥ v6.13.4

Hint: The Windows installer of Node.js will install NPM as well. You don´t have to install NPM afterwards.

• Installing Node.js via package manager

2. Install npm-check-updates [optional]

To keep all your node packages up2date, you should install this module. We do this installation global (-g) in order to easy access the "check for updates" function from the SHELL.

$ npm install -g npm-check-updates

This will global install npm-check-updates

3. Install all required node modules from the /package.json

$ npm install

This will install all required modules and their dependencies local ([PROJECT_ROOT]/node_modules/)

4. Check installation

• $ node -v should show the current Node.js version
• $ npm -v should show the current NPM version
• $ npm list --depth=0 will list all local module installations. The output should look something like this:

G:\webpages\pathfinder>npm list --depth=0
[email protected] G:\webpages\pathfinder
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected] extraneous
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
`-- [email protected]