You can use Vagrant for your local development without installing Node and Redis on your machine.
To install Vagrant you can follow Getting Started instructions.
After you have installed Vagrant you can just cd
into the project directory
cd libertaxi
To install and run your virtual machin run
vagrant up
After this you can ssh into your VM by calling
vagrant ssh
The project will be in the /vagrant
directory
cd /vagrant
After that you can use all needed commands described in Getting Started section.