Lets dive into action and come back some more theory concepts of nodejs along with exercises.
How to setup nodejs environment?
Goto https://nodejs.org/en/download/ and download the installer based on your environment. After successful installation it configure the PATH variable where nodejs executables are installed.
| OS | Path |
|---|---|
| Linux | /usr/local/nodejs/bin |
| Mac | /usr/local/nodejs/bin |
| FreeBSD | /usr/local/nodejs/bin |
| Windows | C:\Program Files\nodejs\bin |
Verify installation
To confirm the installation,open terminal execute below command.
node --versionIt should return the version number in the console. Example.
v12.14.0
Recommended editors
You could develop nodejs application using any text editor however visual studio code is very popular for programming which has built in terminal where you can execute the code and see the results.
Download https://code.visualstudio.com/download editor in the link.
What next?
Setup is done and editor is ready. What next?