Seam Miniapp Maker
  • Creating Miniapps on Seam
  • Get Started
    • Quickstart
    • Local Environment Setup
  • Miniapp Creation
    • Composer Component
    • Feed Component
    • Supporting Mobile
    • Uploading Images, Videos, and Files
    • Miniapp Icons
    • FAQ
    • Tips & Tricks
  • Submission
    • Creating a Pull Request
    • Adding Teammates
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Local Environment Setup

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Last updated 8 months ago

To get started building on Seam, the only requirement is a Node JS environment. Seam miniapps are written in and are components. Read on to get setup with the programming tools on your own computer.

Node, NPM & Yarn

Node.js is the runtime environment that most modern JavaScript applications use to run their code.

Like all JavaScript projects, Seam has dependencies on 3rd party packages which provide additional functionality for the miniapps and also getting the web app to work as intended. To install and manage these dependencies, a package manager is required.

At Seam, we prefer over . In our documentation, you'll often see yarn install or yarn start. This is because Yarn is faster and more secure than the Node Package Manager (NPM).

Of course, a code editor is also necessary. We recommend which is a free, open source text editor made by Microsoft.

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