> Markdown version of [Installing the Client-Side Development Environment](https://vaadin.com/docs/v7/framework/clientside/clientside-installing). Section index: [llms.txt](https://vaadin.com/docs/v7/framework/llms.txt)

# <a id="clientside.installing"></a>Installing the Client-Side Development Environment

The installation of the client-side development libraries is described in ["Getting Started with Vaadin"](https://vaadin.com/docs/v7/framework/getting-started/getting-started-overview.md#getting-started.overview). You especially need the vaadin-client library, which contains the client-side Java API, and vaadin-client-compiler, which contains the Vaadin Client Compiler for compiling Java to JavaScript.