Clarify some prerequisites

komalali · Mar 11, 2019 · f1fd9f2 · f1fd9f2
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@@ -16,20 +16,27 @@ To deploy your new serverless application, follow the below steps.
 
 ### Prerequisites
 
+0. [Ensure you have Node.js](https://nodejs.org/en/download/)
 1. [Install Pulumi](https://pulumi.io/install)
 2. [Configure AWS Credentials](https://pulumi.io/install/aws.html)
 
 ### Steps
 
 After cloning this repo, from this working directory, run these commands:
 
-1. Create a new stack, which is an isolated environment for this example:
+0. Install Node.js dependencies, either using NPM or Yarn:
+
+ ```bash
+ $ npm install
+ ```
+
+1. Create a new Pulumi stack, which is an isolated environment for this example:
 
  ```bash
  $ pulumi stack init
  ```
 
- This will ask you to provide a name; `dev` is a fine name to begin with.
+ This will ask you to give your stack a name; `dev` is a fine name to begin with.
 
 2. Configure the AWS region for this program -- any valid AWS region will do: