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The Dat Alpha release is out now. Read the announcement post here.

We have prepared an in-browser workshop for learning dat. You can try it out here: http://maxogden.github.io/get-dat

We also recommend reading the getting started guide.

The easiest way to try dat is using our heroku-dat-template which lets you deploy a dat directly to heroku all from your browser, no command-line required.

You need to install node.js version 0.10 or above. We recommend that you install node from the node website.

You can check your node version by running node -v on the command line.

To get the currently published version (recommended):

npm install dat -g

The -g means "install globally" which makes the dat command available in your command line path.

You can also install the latest development version with git (experienced users only):

git clone git://github.com/maxogden/dat.git
cd dat
npm install
npm link

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