1. We have decided which types of computers and operating systems we are going to support and what programming language we are going to use
2. We are comfortable using the 2 tools that let us build javascript software on those operating system. Node and a web browser
3. We are comfortable using the platforms's code sharing system, npm. We can use javascript packages to make building our software faster.
4. If we want, we can share our code as javascript packages by publishing them to npmjs

We can now focus more on actually building the software