You don't need to install it separately, it will be there after you install node.īecause node is open source, and developers are nice people (usually), developers can expose their projects for other developers to use. So node also has this really cool thing that comes with it called NPM. What about NPM? Node's equally cool best friend! To check node is properly installed run this command in your terminal: node -version Please follow the instructions on the official website: Now that you have heard of the great almighty Node.js, it's time to install Node.js on your local computer Node.js allows us to write backend or server code in JavaScript! Before this was not possible, you had to use Java or PHP for instance. Node.js allows us to run JavaScript outside the browser, on a server for example Node.js can be installed on any server, it's open-source and free Node.js is a new(ish) runtime environment for JavaScript. Now there are two ways to run JavaScript: Node.js is a new environment for JavaScript. But now, we can run JavaScript code almost anywhere…how? By installing the one they call, Node.js.
This limited JavaScript from being used outside of the browser. So whenever we wrote JavaScript we would only really see it in action once we open a web page on the browser. In fact, the browser used to be the only runtime environment for JavaScript. When we think JavaScript, we think browser, websites, web pages, interactivity, event listeners, onclick, etc.
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