<commit_before>---
title: Quickstart
---

# Getting Started

It's everyone's favorite first project for a server side framework: let's build
a basic blogging application!

## Installation

First off, make sure you install Denali globally via npm:

```sh
$ npm install -g denali-cli denali
```

## Scaffolding our application

> Note: Denali requires you to use Node 6.0 or greater.

Next, let's use Denali's handy scaffolding tools to create a blank slate for us
to start from:

```sh
$ denali new blog
create blog/.babelrc
create blog/.editorconfig
create blog/.env
create blog/.eslintignore
create blog/.eslintrc
create blog/.gitattributes<commit_msg>guides(quickstart): Update minimum version of node (#382)<commit_after>---
title: Quickstart
---

# Getting Started

It's everyone's favorite first project for a server side framework: let's build
a basic blogging application!

## Installation

First off, make sure you install Denali globally via npm:

```sh
$ npm install -g denali-cli denali
```

## Scaffolding our application

> Note: Denali requires you to use Node 7.0 or greater.

Next, let's use Denali's handy scaffolding tools to create a blank slate for us
to start from:

```sh
$ denali new blog
create blog/.babelrc
create blog/.editorconfig
create blog/.env
create blog/.eslintignore
create blog/.eslintrc
create blog/.gitattributes
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