FLOW-JAMS

Learn Flow JS by adventuring around in the terminal.

Looking for more interactive tutorials like this? Go to nodeschool.io.

Get help

Having issues with flow-jams? Get help troubleshooting in the nodeschool discussions repo, or on gitter:

TODO - update Gitter reference

Install Node.js

Make sure Node.js is installed on your computer.

Install it from nodejs.org

On Windows and using v4 or v5 of Node.js? Make sure you are using at least 5.1.0, which provides a fix for a bug on Windows where you can't choose items in the menu.

Install flow-jams with npm

Open your terminal and run this command:

npm install --global flow-jams

The --global option installs this module globally so that you can run it as a command in your terminal.

Having issues with installation?

If you get an EACCESS error, the simplest way to fix this is to rerun the command, prefixed with sudo:

sudo npm install --global flow-jams

You can also fix the permissions so that you don't have to use sudo. Take a look at this npm documentation: https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/fixing-npm-permissions

Run the workshop

Open your terminal and run the following command:

flow-jams

You'll see the menu:

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Navigate the menu with the up & down arrow keys.

Choose a challenge by hitting enter.

You can use any editor you like.

TODO Add VS Code

atom or brackets are both good options.

Need help with an exercise?

Open an issue in the nodeschool/discussions repo: https://github.com/nodeschool/discussions

Include the name flow-jams and the name of the challenge you're working on in the title of the issue.

Get Involved

Code contributions welcome! Please check our documentation on contributing to get started.

License

MIT