What you need for this book
The first thing you need to get started with is a web browser and text editor, such as Sublime Text or Atom. Then, you need to install node.js (http://nodejs.org/)—which already includes the npm package manager—and the bower package manager (http://bower.io/). I will walk you through the installation of the required packages in the corresponding chapters.
For examples that require you to load data from your local hard drive, I would recommend that you install the http-server module (https://www.npmjs.com/package/http-server) to run all the examples from a local web server. An Internet connection is only required to install tools and libraries but not to run the examples.
