# Introduction

Installing Electrik and getting started is very easy and does not require any configuration. I have tried building Electrik as a zero-configuration package.

Before creating your first Electrik project, please ensure that you have PHP 8.1+ installed on your system. And also have [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/) and[ Node and NPM](https://nodejs.org/).

The Electrik has a few system requirements. You will need to make sure your server meets the following requirements:

Since Electrik is a Laravel package, all the system requirements of Laravel are also applicable to Electrik. with an exception of PHP version. Electrik only runs on PHP 8.1+.


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