Enterprise Internet of Things Handbook

Setting up Node.js on the Raspberry Pi 3

Log into your Raspberry Pi 3, either via VNC or SSH, or directly connecting it to a monitor.

We will start off by downloading Node.js. Open a new Terminal and run the following commands:

$ sudo apt update

$ sudo apt full-upgrade

This will upgrade all the packages that need upgrades. Next, we will install the latest version of Node.js. We will be using the Node 7.x version:

$ curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_7.x | sudo -E bash -
$ sudo apt install nodejs  

This will take a moment to install and once your installation is done you should be able to run the following commands to see the version of Node.js and npm:

$ node -v
$ npm -v  

You should see something like this:

With this, we are done with ...