Prepare your development environment

You need Node.js 24 or later, pnpm 11.7 or later and Git, and all commands run in a Unix-like terminal.

Windows users: install WSL first

Run this in PowerShell opened as administrator, restart when prompted, then open "Ubuntu". From then on, keep all tools, commands and app directories inside WSL. See Microsoft's WSL installation guide.

wsl --install

Install Node.js and pnpm

Install nvm by following nvm's instructions, then run:

nvm install 24

If you use fnm, install fnm by following fnm's instructions, then run:

fnm install 24

Then install pnpm:

npm install -g pnpm@11

Open a new terminal when you're done.

Install Git

On macOS, run git --version and follow the prompt to install the command line developer tools. On Linux and WSL, install it with the package manager, for example sudo apt install git. Then set your name and email:

git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email "you@example.com"

Done whennode --version shows v24 or later, pnpm --version shows 11.7 or later, and git config user.name shows your name.