Setup

Downloading, setting up, and starting to use SimplePresence.

When you see "run", that means type in the stuff you see and press enter.

📣 If you prefer a visual guide, or are more of a beginner, check out this guide, which has images and a very detailed and easy instruction set!

Requirements

• Node.js and NPM
• Git
• Atom
• Discord

Instructions

1. If you're on Mac/Linux, open Terminal. On Windows, go to the Start Menu, type in cmd.exe and press Enter.
2. Run git clone https://github.com/justdotJS/SimplePresence.git to download the repo
3. Run cd SimplePresence to go to the folder
4. Run (Windows only) copy config.json.example config.json or (on macOS/Linux) cp config.json.example config.json to initialise the configuration
5. Run npm install to install all the requirements
6. Open a file browser - this could be Finder on Mac or Windows Explorer
7. Now, go to the folder where SimplePresence was downloaded
8. Open config.json with the Atom app
9. If you'd like different default text, change the values of the stuff inside textConfig. For example, changing state to "hi" will make "hi" be the text used by default on the start of SimplePresence.
10. Save config.json and close Atom
11. Make sure Discord is running (only one - you can't have more than one open!)
12. Go back to Cmd or Terminal, and run npm run custom
13. You have successfully set up and started SimplePresence!