Learning Node.js Development

Node.js version confirmation

In the browser, we can head over to nodejs.org to grab the installer for the latest version of Node(as shown here). In this book, we'll use the most recent version, version 9.3.0:

It is important that you install a V8 version of Node.js. It doesn't have to be 4.0, it could be 1.0, but it is important it's on that V8 branch, because there is a ton of new features that come along with V8, including all of the features you might have come to love in the browser using ES6.

ES6 is the next version of JavaScript and it comes with a lot of great enhancements we'll be using throughout the book. If you look at the following ...