Setting Up the Workspace for Decentralized Web Nodes in JavaScript

This chapter will help you configure your JavaScript workspace for working with Decentralized Web Nodes (DWN). Follow these steps to set up your development environment:

Prerequisites

• Node.js version 18 or above installed on your system
• Node Package Manager (npm) installed and added to your system's $PATH.

Step 1 : **Open your terminal, create and change the working directory

and :**

   mkdir web5-dwn
   cd web5-dwn

Step 2 : Initialize a package.json file using NPM:

   npm init -y

This will create a package.json file in your project.

Step 3 : Install Web5 using NPM:

   npm install @web5/api@0.11.0

Step 4 : Open the project in your preferred code editor (e.g., VSCode):

   code -r .

Step 5 : Edit the package.json file to include "type": "module" so your project recognizes JavaScript modules:

   {
     "dependencies": {
       "@web5/api": "0.11.0"
     },
     "type": "module"
   }

Step 6 : Create an index.js file for your application logic:

   touch index.js

For Windows using PowerShell:

New-Item index.js -ItemType File

At this point, your workspace and package.json file should look like this:

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