Technical requirements
This book has an accompanying GitHub repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Building-Your-Own-JavaScript-Framework. In each chapter, we will point to the relevant directories in this repository. Feel free to clone or download the repository as a ZIP file.
You need a desktop or a laptop computer with internet access and a terminal application to install and run the code from this repository. We shall also be utilizing Node.js to run some of the parts of the repository. Node.js is an open source, cross-platform, backend JavaScript runtime environment that runs JavaScript code outside a web browser. The installation for Node.js can be found at nodejs.org. For the code from the repository, you can use any environment that supports a terminal and runs Node.js, such as Windows, macOS, and most varieties of Linux.