* [Node](https://nodejs.org/en/download/) installed on your machine
* Experience with [React](https://reactjs.org/)
## 1. Create a project (optional)
If you already have an existing Next.js project, that’s fine too. Just skip this step and proceed with the next step.
For the sake of this guide, let’s start with a new Next.js project called `tiptap-example`. The following command sets up everything we need to get started.
Now that we have a standard boilerplate set up we can get started on getting Tiptap up and running! For this we will need to install two packages: `@tiptap/react` and `@tipta/starter-kit` which includes all the extensions you need to get started quickly.
If you followed step 1 and 2, you can now start your project with `npm run dev` or `yarn dev`, and open [http://localhost:3000/](http://localhost:3000/) in your favorite browser. This might be different, if you’re working with an existing project.
To actually start using Tiptap, you’ll need to add a new component to your app. To do this, first create a directory called `components/`. Now it's time to create our component which we'll call `Tiptap`. To do this put the following example code in `components/Tiptap.js`.