In order to be able to work on the recipes, you need the following:

• An IDE or code editor of your preference. Visual Studio Code (vscode) was used when writing the recipes' codes, so I suggest you to give it a try
• An Operating System (O.S) that is able to run NodeJS and MongoDB, preferably one of the following:
  • macOS X Yosemite/El Capitan/Sierra
  • Linux
  • Windows 7/8/10 (.NET framework 4.5 is required if installing VSCode in Windows 7)
• Preferably, at least 1 GB RAM and 1.6 GHz processor or faster