---
order: 2
title: Installation
---

## Using npm to install

**We recommend using npm to install**，it not only makes development easier，but you can also take advantage of the whole ecosystem.


If using npm to install, you could use `import` or `require`.

Stable version：

[![npm package](http://img.shields.io/npm/v/antd.svg?style=flat-square)](https://www.npmjs.org/package/antd)

```bash
$ npm install antd --save
```

You can Subscribe to this feed for new version notification: https://github.com/ant-design/ant-design/releases.atom


Beta version：

[![](https://cnpmjs.org/badge/v/antd.svg?&tag=beta&subject=npm)](https://www.npmjs.org/package/antd)

```bash
$ npm install antd@beta --save
```

> **Past releases**：https://github.com/ant-design/ant-design/releases


## Development tool

We provide React components [Scaffold tool](https://github.com/ant-design/antd-init).

```bash
$ npm install antd-init -g
```

Inside an empty folder run `antd-init` to init.

> [More development tools](http://ant-tool.github.io/)。