MDC Web Codelab prerequisite - Setting up local dev environment

[jeffclaybrook]

Feature Request

Material Web Codelab prerequisite for setting up a local dev environment i.e. making sure npm, nodeJS, etc. are all set up appropriately in order to get started with and complete the actual codelabs. Even when I follow the precise step by step instructions provided in the codelabs, I get flooded with errors in Terminal which prevents me from getting past the first steps in the codelabs

Proposed solution

Basically just a prerequisite tutorial for making sure the dev environment is configured in such a way that everything works correctly when going through each codelab. The HTML, CSS/SCSS, and JS files all makes sense but everything seems to implode on itself as soon as I start trying to use npm/nodeJS/CLI etc.

Alternatives considered

Additional context

If I can't get past step 1 (setting up my dev environment) then I can't even get started with the actual codelabs