Quickstart Local Demo

If you don't have N|Solid installed but would like to either try running your application with N|Solid or to run a prepared demo application, we provide the N|Solid Quickstart package.

N|Solid Quickstart can be run via npx to fetch a temporary version of N|Solid and connect it to your SaaS account for you to get an immediate look at the N|Solid Pro UI.

Installing npx

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This quickstart assumes you already have Node.js and npm installed on your system. If that's not the case, we suggest just skipping straight to the Local Install instructions and installing N|Solid directly to your system.

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npx is a utility for executing utility tools published to the npm repository. It downloads the tool to a cache location and then executes it locally. If for some reason you don't already have npx on your system already, you can install it via:

npm install -g npx

Getting your NSOLID_SAAS token

Log into NodeSource Accounts and copy your NSOLID_SAAS token.

Running the prepared demo

Now you've got everything you need to run the demo! To kick it off, we'll use npx and provide the NSOLID_SAAS token on the command line like so:

npx nsolid-quickstart --saas "<...your NSOLID_SAAS key...>" --demo

Running your own application

To run your own application, either use your npm run commands as defined in your package.json or specify the file to execute:

Executing a npm run command (npm run start in this case):

npx nsolid-quickstart --saas <...your NSOLID_SAAS key...> --npm start

In order to specify which file to execute:

npx nsolid-quickstart --saas <...your NSOLID_SAAS key...> --exec index.js