If you just want to watch the talk, you don't need anything. If you want to follow along or play around with webpack and/or browserify at the camp, I recommend preinstalling the following before setting out.
Just in case the npm mirror is not available at the camp, you can preinstall the following if you want to play around with browserify and webpack:
nodejs is the runtime on which webpack and browserify run (just in case youmanaged not to hear about it somehow)
nodejs: http://nodejs.org/
The experience on linux can be a bit below-par (global module install requires elevated permissions). This is what I do to get it installed and working nicely on my RHEL6 box: gist: Simple node setup on RHEL6. It should work for Centos/Fedora, and may work for other distros.
Webpack and Browserify should be installed globally so you can use them on the command line. They are nodejs modules, so they are installed using npm ("node package manager", or "nice people matter" - whichever you prefer). To install a module globally, use the -g flag:
npm install -g webpack
npm install -g webpack-dev-server
npm install -g browserify
npm install -g beefyMany systems will already have git installed. Check if it is already installed by running git --version.
If you don't have git, install it. I'll defer to github for install instructions (I presume they know a thing or two more about git than I do): https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git
Repository: https://github.com/davidmason/work-life
This is the project in which I have been messing around with webpack and browserify, so it should have all the modules you would need to copy what I'm doing.
To clone on command line, run git clone https://github.com/davidmason/work-life.git. This will download all my code and configuration to a directory called 'work-life'.
You can also download a zip from the github page.
Update the clone just before you head to camp (sync or run git pull from the 'work-life' directory), since I'll likely be tinkering with it continuously. You can grab the latest from me at the camp if I make any big changes after Thursday night.
The git repository does not include all the libraries needed to bundle and run the project. The libraries are specified in the package.json file in the 'work-life' directory.
Run npm install in the work-life directory to download all the modules used by the project. The modules will download into a node_modules directory.
If you've done all the above steps, you should be able to bundle and run the project. To bundle, run webpack in the work-life directory. Once that is done, just open index.html in a browser (chrome or firefox are more likely to work properly) and you should see some shapes moving, and some numbers.