Lesson 1. Configuring your environment
In this lesson, you install all the tools you need to start building applications with Node.js. You install a version of Node.js that’s compatible with the latest JavaScript ES6 updates. Next, you install a text editor—software through which you’ll write your application’s code. Last, you give Node.js a test drive from your computer’s command-line terminal by using a Node.js sandbox environment known as REPL.
This lesson covers
- Installing Node.js
- Installing a text editor
- Setting up SCM and deployment tools
- Working with the Node.js REPL in terminal
1.1. Installing Node.js
Node.js is growing in popularity and support. For this reason, new versions to download are being deployed quite frequently, and ...
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