**Cupper** is built using the static site engine, [Hugo](https://gohugo.io/), and NPM. The codebase is available to download on Github. Let's get everything installed step-by-step.
If you are a Mac user and have [Homebrew](https://brew.sh/) on your system, installing Hugo is simple:
{{<cmd>}}brew install hugo{{</cmd>}}
Alternatively, you can manually [install Hugo from a package](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases). You can verify the installation was successful by typing:
Installing on Windows is a little more involved than on OSX. The authors of Hugo provide [a guide](https://gohugo.io/tutorials/installing-on-windows/) with instructions for technical and less technical users.
It's also best you install a Windows Subsystem for running Linux, and therefore [bash](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash_(Unix_shell)) (**Cupper** incorporates some bash commands in its scripts). [Microsoft offer a complete guide](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/commandline/wsl/install_guide).
It is likely you already have Node and NPM installed on your system. If so, you can skip this step. Otherwise, [refer to NPM's own guide](https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/installing-node), which includes a video tutorial.
**Cupper** is hosted on Github. To start using it, you'll need to get the files from there. If you are comfortable with the command line, just fork the [github.com/ThePacielloGroup/cupper](https://github.com/ThePacielloGroup/cupper) repository, then do a `git clone` to your local system. Replace `[your username]` in the following:
If the command line is not your thing, use Github's web interface to fork [github.com/ThePacielloGroup/cupper](https://github.com/ThePacielloGroup/cupper) and choose **Open in Desktop** from **Clone or download** (see figure 1, below).
While you're in the Github interface, you might as well set up the publishing source for the live site. Choose the Master branch/docs option under **Settings → Github Pages → Source**. See {{% pattern "Serving" %}} for more details.