You'll need basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript skills for Monster. If you're just
starting out with frontend development, you should have a good beginner's
guide open alongside this one.
You can also post your questions on [Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask?tags=javascript,monster).
To get started with Monster, all you need is a text editor and a browser.
The best way is to copy the following example into a file and save it as
index.html.
```
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>awaken the monster in you!</title>
</head>
<body>
<div>your version is
<spay id="version"></spay>
</div>
<script type="module">
import {Version} from 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@schukai/monster@1.21.0/dist/modules/types/version.js';
document.getElementById('version').innerText = new Version('1.0.0').toString();
</script>
</body>
</html>
```
Now open this file with your browser.
What did you do? you used the class 'Version' of monster and created a Version object. They then output this in a span.
**Voila!**
As seen above in the version example, each monster class or function can be used independently.
Alternatively, Monster can be used as a collection of many useful classes and functions via
the `Monster` namespace as a single javascript file.
```
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>awaken the monster in you!</title>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@schukai/monster@1.21.0/dist/monster.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div>your version is
<spay id="version"></spay>
</div>
<script>
document.getElementById('version').innerText = new Monster.Types.Version('1.0.0').toString();
</script>
</body>
</html>
```
Besides the CDN [jsdelivr](https://www.jsdelivr.com/package/npm/@schukai/monster),
Monster can also be obtained via [NPM](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@schukai/monster)
or the [git repos](https://gitlab.schukai.com/oss/libraries/javascript/monster).
Monster itself has no dependencies and does not dictate anything to you,
you can use Monster with Bootstrap, jQuery or other cool frameworks.