March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
380 pages
9h 23m
English
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Node.js
Node.js is a JavaScript runtime environment. It revolutionized the JavaScript world and made JavaScript the most popular development language among developers today (according to https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017#technology-programming-languages). The Node ecosystem is the largest in the world with over 600,000 packages and is managed by NPM, the default package manager.
The JHipster CLI is a NodeJS application and hence requires NodeJS, to run, and many of the tools used in the generated application will also require NodeJS:
- Check for NodeJS by typing node -v in the Terminal. It should display a version number. Make sure that the version number is greater than 8.9 and corresponds to the latest LTS version of NodeJS. ...