# Setup


## Installation

To install n8n globally:

```bash
npm install n8n -g
```

## Start

After the installation n8n can be started by simply typing in:

```bash
n8n
# or
n8n start
```


## Start with tunnel

!> **WARNING**: This is only meant for local development and testing. Should not be used in production!

To be able to use webhooks which all triggers of external services like Github
rely on n8n has to be reachable from the web. To make that easy n8n has a
special tunnel service (uses this code: [https://github.com/localtunnel/localtunnel](https://github.com/localtunnel/localtunnel)) which redirects requests from our servers to your local
n8n instance.

To use it simply start n8n with `--tunnel`

```bash
n8n start --tunnel
```
