Configuring the environment

There're just a couple of things left we need to do before we're ready to build our own version of jQuery. We can also test our installation and configuration by building the full version of jQuery in order to test that everything is working as it should.

Prepare for Lift Off

We'll need to install some additional Grunt dependencies so that we can create the jQuery Script files using the source files that we cloned from Github. There are also a range of NPM modules that the project uses, which also need to be installed. Fortunately the NPM can install everything for us automatically.

Engage Thrusters

Before we can build the jQuery source, we need to install some additional Grunt dependencies in the jquery source folder. We can do this using NPM and so can enter the following command into the CLI:

npm install 

Note

Make sure you have already used the cd command to navigate to the jquery directory before running the install command.

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