Merge pull request #3178 from jspsych/docs-update-setup-instructions

Update dev environment configuration docs

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### Install Node.js
The jsPsych development setup requires [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/en/) >= v18 to be installed on your machine.
The jsPsych development setup requires a [Node.js LTS version](https://nodejs.org/en/download/) to be installed on your machine.
### Clone the repository and install the dependencies
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Then run `npm install`.
This will create a `node_modules` directory and install all the dependencies into it that are required to build and test jsPsych.
!!! info
The jsPsych (-contrib) repositories depend on the `canvas` package which comes with pre-built binaries.
On systems for which no pre-built binaries are available, `npm install` will try to build the binaries from scratch, sometimes failing with an error message mentioning the `canvas` package.
If you are facing such installation issues, please follow the [installation instructions](https://github.com/Automattic/node-canvas/wiki#installation-guides) of the `canvas` package and run `npm install` again afterwards.
!!! info
If you are running `npm install` in the core jsPsych repository, this will also execute the build chain for all packages in the jsPsych repository.
This step may take a few minutes.