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Posted by Jesse Lawson
Jesse Lawson
11,159 Points

when I want to create a web app do I mkdir somewhere under my home path?

I guess what I am wondering is...

I want to make a new app. Do I make a dir on desktop or something then download everything into that dir? Like $ cd myNewApp? Then once I'm in my new app directory I download everything? node, npm, angular, react, grunt, gulp, etc...into that new dir?

Or do I get all that stuff downloaded and THEN make $mkdir myNewApp and link to the needed programming

Jesse Lawson
Jesse Lawson
11,159 Points

so when i installed homebrew and it created the dir's under it. It is sugjusting build under there for safety.

do I have to download homebrew for every app?

node?

2 Answers

elk6
elk6
22,916 Points

Hi Jesse,

mkdir first and download the stuff you need to that folder.

But you can make a dir wherever you want. You are no restricted to the home directory or anything. Make a dir wherever it suits you best and start from there.

Elian

Sue Dough
Sue Dough
35,800 Points
Sue Dough
Sue Dough
35,800 Points

  1. Make your directory mkdir test

  2. cd test

  3. Then you start adding stuff like npm, grunt, bower, etc