From the course: SharePoint Framework for Developers: 1 Understanding the Toolchain

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Install Yeoman and gulp

Install Yeoman and gulp

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Install Yeoman and gulp

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- [Instructor] With Node.js, Yarn, and NPM installed, you need to install two more packages globally. Now I don't like to install things globally because, you know, you want to keep your global space clean. However, currently it is just easier, with SharePoint Framework to install these packages globally. Certainly, Yeoman is a package that it prefers to be installed globally. So let's go ahead and install Yeoman globally. npm install -g yo So if I hit enter now, it'll install Yeoman globally but there is one other thing you need to install globally and that is Gulp. Gulp is a task runner. I'll just hit enter and wait for this to finish. So typically, in a more complicated project template, like SharePoint Framework, you would have a number of tasks run when you want to say build the application or ship the application, et cetera. Gulp is a task runner that helps you automate all of these steps. Now my personal preference is to not install Gulp globally. What if you've got two…

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