Getting ready

Let's create a new folder called redis-app with an index.js file, initialize it, and install redis, steed, and uuid:

$ mkdir redis-app 
$ cd redis-app 
$ touch index.js 
$ npm init -y 
$ npm install --save redis steed uuid

We also need to install the Redis server, which can be downloaded from http://www.redis.io/download along with the installation instructions.