Mastering SVG

Tooling

Up until this point, we haven't had to do much in terms of tooling. Almost all the examples will work when served off the local file system, as written.

That won't necessarily be the case going forward. In the simplest case, any examples that require making HTTP requests, for example, will rely on the node package serve (https://www.npmjs.com/package/serve) in order to set up a simple local server. 

The React and Angular examples, in particular, require even more extensive tooling. At a minimum you will need to have Node.js (https://nodejs.org/en/) installed and you'll have to follow a few steps to get set up. In the end you'll have a local web server running, and several processes which will watch for changes to your JavaScript or ...