Windows

NodeJS

NodeJS is the most popular JavaScript runtime environment excluding browsers. It can run on your desktop or even a server.

You can download it from here

npm

The Node Package Manager comes pre-bundles with the NodeJS installation from above.

yarn

Only required when not using npm

For every platform, the installation of yarn is the same.

npm install --global yarn

Indy-sdk

The indy-sdk is used by Aries Framework JavaScript for all of its lower level functionality, like cryptography, ledger interaction and much more.

You can download the prebuilt library here and afterwards extract them to a permanent location.

Next, go to environment variables on your system and click on new at System Variables. The name MUST be LD_LIBRARY_PATH and the value MUST be the path to the extracted libraries.

Confirm installation

To see whether the indy-sdk is properly installed, run the following command and it should not error.

npx -p @aries-framework/node@^0.3 is-indy-installed