Node.js

Node.js is the open-source JavaScript runtime environment based on Chrome V8 engine and that can execute JavaScript code outside a web browser.

References

• https://nodejs.org/en/ — Node.js home (show current LTS version, and latest version).
• NVM — Node Version Manager, which allows to manage multiple released Node.js versions (to use version from source, see here).

Install

Install using distribution packages

The simplest is to install from apt:

sudo apt install nodejs npm

To install the latest version using apt, install Node.js repositories (nodesource, [

# Add repository -- adapt version as necessary:
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo -E bash -
# Install
sudo apt install nodejs

Install using NVM

See instruction on github.