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title: Preparing to Code
description: Prepare your environment for sern bot development
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After installing an IDE, you need to install `node`. Node is necessary to use `sern`, as it's based on `Discord.js`.

You can download Node from the official website [here](https://nodejs.org/en/download/).

After you've downloaded Node you will need a [Discord token](https://github.com/reactiflux/discord-irc/wiki/Creating-a-discord-bot-&-getting-a-token)

CONTINUE 🤓
