# Prerequisites

Before you begin, please do the following:

1. Install and use the [**Emotiv-BCI**](https://www.emotiv.com/emotiv-bci/) application to create your Training Profile for Mental Commands and Facial Expressions in the cloud.
2. Accept **EMOTIV’s Developer’s License Agreement** by installing and opening [**Emotiv App**](https://www.emotiv.com/developer/) and following the instructions.
3. Install [**NodeJS**](https://nodejs.org/en/download/). NodeJS LTS 8.x is recommended.

EMOTIV’s Developer’s License is required to use EMOTIV with any third party application like Node-RED.

Node.js is required to run Node-RED. Users of Node.js 6.x and 4.x should ensure they have the latest updates. Node-RED no longer supports Node.js 0.12.x or 0.10.x.<br>


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