Managing Packages with NPM - How to Use package.json, the Core of Any Node.js Project or npm Package

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I just started backend course and I am having trouble understanding what to do regarding github repo. do I have to learn git before backend

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Managing Packages with NPM - How to Use package.json, the Core of Any Node.js Project or npm Package

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git could be useful, but it is not necessary for this part, the only thing you need to be able to do is git clone <url-of-repo> to get the files locally, and npm i then npm start to start the server

btw these are CLI commands

the Relational Databases certification include also these things

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Thanks, and can I use VS code for this and if yes then how I couldn’t find a proper explanation anywhere.

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yes you can use VSCode

open the folder of the project in VSCode and you can use the commands in the terminal with VScode