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Getting Started missing info #2290

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I am a bit frustrated with Eleventy, and I just installed it!

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Eleventy v1.0.0 requires Node 12 or newer.

That's annoying since my Ubuntu Studio 20.04 LTS has Node 10. A link to where to get Node would be good here.

Install Eleventy into package.json
Now we can install and save Eleventy into our project’s package.json by running:
npm install --save-dev @11ty/eleventy
Installing locally is preferred to global installation.

This statement of preferring local installation is problematic (for me at least). I found that 55Meg were downloaded when I installed Eleventy. If I have to do that for each of the starter templates that I am trying to learn how to converge into one, it is a huge waste of bandwidth. Explaining why local on a separate page means people won't necessarily choose correctly since not everyone will follow the link.
Either it needs to be smaller, or how to make some sort of symbolic link should be explained.
A warning about size of download would be nice, also.

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