Node.js

If you are not planning to change the codebase, you don´t have to read on.

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PATHFINDER comes along with a simple, Gulp based, build process. There are two predefined Gulp tasks that will help you:

• default task is designed for "continuous development" environment
• production task is designed for "production deployment" environment

1. Install Node.js >=v4.4.4 with NPM >=v2.15.1

Hint: The Windows installer of Node.js will install NPM as well. You don´t have to install NPM afterwards.

• Installing Node.js via package manager

2. Install all required node modules from the /package.json

$ npm install

This will install all required modules and their dependencies local ([PROJECT_ROOT]/node_modules/)

3. OPTIONAL: Install npm-check-updates

To keep all your node packages up2date, you should install this module. We do this installation global (-g) in order to easy access the "check for updates" function from the SHELL.

npm install -g npm-check-updates

This will global install npm-check-updates