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title: Getting Started
aliases: [/docs/js/getting_started]
weight: 1
---

These two guides for Node.js and the browser use simple examples in javascript
to get you started with OpenTelemetry. Both will show you the following steps:

- Install the required OpenTelemetry libraries
- Initialize a global [tracer](/docs/reference/specification/trace/api/#tracer)
- Initialize and register a
  [span exporter](/docs/reference/specification/trace/sdk/#span-exporter)
