Quickstart For Learners

Start Learning with LearnPack

The easiest way to start learning with LearnPack is to initiate any tutorial through Codespaces or Gitpod. Here you have a guide with different tutorials you can do now.

How to open any LearnPack tutorial in Codespace or Gitpod

1. Select the tutorial you are interested in, in this case, I will just click on Looping with Javascript

2. Press Code and then Create codespace on master

3. When the Codespace finishes loading, it's ready! Now you just have to start reading the instructions and doing the exercises.

Note: The process with Gitpod is similar. Just have the Gitpod extension installed and you will see a button that says open.

How to use LearnPack locally

To use LearnPack locally you will need to have Node > 18 installed.

You can install the latest version from here

1. Install LearnPack with npm:

1npm i -g @learnpack/learnpack

1. Clone a LearnPack repository Open the terminal and run the git clone command. Example with the Javascript tutorial:

1git clone https://github.com/4GeeksAcademy/javascript-arrays-exercises-tutorial.git

1. Enter the new directory A directory with the name of the tutorial will be created, enter it with the cd command:

1cd javascript-arrays-exercises-tutorial

1. Execute LearnPack When you installed LearnPack globally, a new option was added to your computer's commands, now you can execute:

1learnpack start

In the directory of a LearnPack tutorial, and you're done.

Note: In case LearnPack detects that plugins not installed are needed for the tutorial you are doing, LearnPack will install them for you. Then just restart with learnpack start

Use LearnPack locally with VSCode

Also, if you have VSCode on your computer, install the Learnpack extension. Once you are inside a LearnPack tutorial in VSCode, if it is the first time you start, the LearnPack extension will execute learnpack start for you.