# Creating your experiment

Once you have finished setting up Node and Meteor, [as per our setup guide](https://docsv1.empirica.ly/getting-started/setup), you can use `create-empirica-app` to create your experiment.

Then you can simply run the following command, where `my-experiment` is your customized experiment name (no spaces or uppercase letters):

```bash
npx create-empirica-app my-experiment
```

It will create a directory called `my-experiment` inside the current folder.\
Inside that directory, it will generate the initial [structure ](https://docsv1.empirica.ly/overview/structure)and install the transitive dependencies.

Once the installation is done, open your project folder:

```bash
cd my-experiment
```

You can now read more about the running your experiment, the structure of an Empirica experiment, and you can try our tutorial:

{% content-ref url="quick-test" %}
[quick-test](https://docsv1.empirica.ly/getting-started/quick-test)
{% endcontent-ref %}

{% content-ref url="../overview/structure" %}
[structure](https://docsv1.empirica.ly/overview/structure)
{% endcontent-ref %}

{% content-ref url="../guides/tutorial-your-first-experiment" %}
[tutorial-your-first-experiment](https://docsv1.empirica.ly/guides/tutorial-your-first-experiment)
{% endcontent-ref %}