* [Node](https://nodejs.org/en/download/) installed on your machine
* Experience with [React](https://reactjs.org/docs/getting-started.html)
## 1. Create a project (optional)
If you already have an existing React 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 fresh React project called `tiptap-example`. [*Create React App*](https://reactjs.org/docs/getting-started.html) sets up everything we need.
```bash
# create a project
npx create-react-app tiptap-example
# change directory
cd tiptap-example
```
## 2. Install the dependencies
Okay, enough of the boring boilerplate work. Let’s finally install tiptap! For the following example you’ll need the `@tiptap/react` package, with a few components, and `@tiptap/starter-kit` which has the most common extensions to get started quickly.
```bash
# install with npm
npm install @tiptap/react@tiptap/starter-kit
# install with Yarn
yarn add @tiptap/react@tiptap/starter-kit
```
If you followed step 1 and 2, you can now start your project with `npm run start` or `yarn start`, and open [http://localhost:3000](http://localhost:3000) in your favorite browser. This might be different, if you’re working with an existing project.
## 3. Create a new component
To actually start using tiptap, you’ll need to add a new component to your app. Let’s call it `Tiptap` and put the following example code in `src/Tiptap.jsx`.
This is the fastest way to get tiptap up and running with React. It will give you a very basic version of tiptap, without any buttons. No worries, you will be able to add more functionality soon.
Ready to add more? Below is a demo that shows how you could set up what we call the default editor. Feel free to take this and start customizing it then: