1. Open your project folder is VS Code and create a new file
2. Name the new file "index.js" and save it in your project folder.
3. Add some basic code to our "index.js" file. Type `console.log('hello');` into the file and save it.
4. Open your terminal or command prompt and navigate to your project folder.
5. In the terminal, type `node index.js` and press Enter. You'll see the word "hello" printed in the terminal. This means Node.js successfully ran your code from the "index.js" file.
6. Also type “node .” in the terminal and press enter, which implicitly runs the default file in the current directory, which is "index.js" in our case. Again, we’ll see "hello" printed in the terminal.