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Now that we have all our tools installed and configured, we're ready to run some sample code as a starting point for our workshop. We'll focus on downloading the code and making sure it runs in your runtime environment, rather than making extensive changes to it.

☑️ Checklist

• [ ] Setup a place to edit code
• [ ] Install a the nodejs runtime
• [ ] Copy the shared sample app
• [ ] Run a script to check that it’s working

Setup Options

Option 1: Setup a light IDE (Interactive Developer Environment)

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If you already did this back in Part 1, skip ahead to Install Node.js & npm

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Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is a popular code editor and developer environment. While you can technically write code in any text editing program, VS Code has useful features and plugins that make developers' lives easier. We'll use some of these features later on, such as tools for interacting with APIs and debugging webhooks but if this looks too difficult or you are not able to install this kind of software on your laptop, try option 2 👇.

1. Download and install Visual Studio Code.
2. Open Visual Studio Code and you should see a window like this:
   • Screenshot

Option 2: Signup for an online IDE :easy_button:

Like we mentioned in part 1, you can use entirely online tools for almost everything in this tutorial, thanks to the modern cloud age of software! There are still some nice things about having the tools on your computer, but it’s not required.

1. Go to repl.it and use your Gihtub account to signup for a free account
2. Click “Create App” and then select “Import from Github”