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title: Getting started
description: Install Distillate and emit your first stylesheet.
url: https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/distillate/getting-started
---

# Getting started
@elastic/distillate targets Node.js 20 and later, published as ESM with a parallel CommonJS build for hosts that can only `require(...)`. Three pages get a library bound and emitting CSS:
- [Installation](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/distillate/getting-started/installation)
- [Quick start](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/distillate/getting-started/quick-start)
- [Your first stylesheet](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/distillate/getting-started/your-first-stylesheet)

After that, read [the distillery](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/distillate/concepts/distillery) and [naming and output](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/distillate/concepts/naming-and-output), or try the [playground](https://elastic.github.io/distillate/playground/).