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Download and Install

Overview

The article describes how to download and install the FCLite API.

Download one of the packages to your project directory: forex-connect-lite to work in browser or forex-connect-lite-node for node projects. To download and install, you need to follow these steps:

Step 1: Installing Node.js

Ensure that you have Node.js application installed if you are using a Microsoft Windows computer. To do this, open a command prompt in administrator mode:

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Type the command node or node -v and press enter to test if NPM and Node.js are installed.

NPM Install


To install Node.js, you can download the latest package from the official Node.js website.

Step 2: Pulling down the project

Create a file named .npmrc in the root of your project containing a single command:

@gehtsoft:registry=https://www.myget.org/F/gehtsoft-public/npm/

Windows Install

Step 3: Installation

Open a command prompt and change to the directory containing your project. Execute the command: npm install @gehtsoft/forex-connect-lite or command: npm install @gehtsoft/forex-connect-lite-node.

NPM Install


This will download the fclite npm packages and install them.

Now that this is done, you can see that you have download one of the packages to your project directory: forex-connect-lite to work in browser or forex-connect-lite-node for node projects. Now you can access the FCLite API from your project.

Table of Contents
Prerequisites
The article describes prerequisites for using the FCLite API.
Download and Install
The article describes how to download and install the FCLite API.