Add a how to get started with node section nearer the top of the site

[danjenkins]

Right now, for someone completely new to node, taking that leap from installing node to running npm commands etc is fairly considerable - "how do i get node?", "what is npm, why do I need to use it?" - these questions seem simple to us, but to complete strangers to node, and maybe even the command line, going and figuring out what to do at nodejs.org and going and reading about npm might be too much of a barrier.

I'd love to see another section which briefly explains how to install node, what npm is, what the npm client is doing, why nodeschool is making you install a module.

Just a really basic, small section to the site nearer the initial npm install -g learnyounode to explain those fundamentals

Twitter conversation that prompted this:

https://twitter.com/dan_jenkins/status/515469119828017152

[hpoom]

+1

[leggetter]

+1

As an example, after writing an article for a magazine I got an email from somebody who was trying to make this leap. The article asks the developer to install Node and then later to run node index.js. The email I got asked:

Run node index.js (unable to find out how I run node index.js via terminal what is the code for this).

Oddly I have looked on loads of node teaching sites however does not explain the formation of running node code - do I need type in location.

@danjenkins' suggestions would definitely help this type of developer.

[hughrawlinson]

+1

[fmoliveira]

+1

[danjenkins]

If someone can give some guidance on where/how they would like this done, I'm sure any of us would go and implement it. Can someone give some guidance?

[martinheidegger]

Some work on this is done in PR #390

[iancrowther]

@danjenkins could you provide a skelington outline of what you would expect to see?

[danjenkins]

@iancrowther everything I'd expect to see is in the description of the issue :D

[iancrowther]

@danjenkins touché