Installing Open WC on PC

Open Web Components is very accessible for anyone interested in trying various ideas for building web components.

Tools Needed

A laptop
Node JS/ npm
VS Code IDE

Steps for getting started

Download and install the correct versions of node js (https://nodejs.org/en/) and visual studio code (https://code.visualstudio.com/download)
Follow the instructions on the links to download nodejs and vs code correctly. To check if the download was successful. Type node -v on the terminal to check the version.

Installing Yarn

Install yarn using the link [https://yarnpkg.com/] to your PC.
Open the link and type the following command in your terminal
npm install - global yarn

Incase you run into permission issues just add sudo infront of your previous command. sudo npm install -global yarn

Installing Open WC Boilerplate

Create a local folder on your PC for your projects
Open your terminal and Navigate to the folder
Run npm init@open-wc
Once the download begins you will be prompted with four questions
Scaffold a New Project
Select "Web Components to scaffold
Toggle through each of the next options Linting, Testing, Demoing using the arrow key and select each
Select No for Typescript
Type lowercase "hello-world" for your tag name
Click yes for disk
Click yes with yarn for installing all the dependencies