You can learn more about Homebrew at the Homebrew website and Linuxbrew at the Linuxbrew website. Homebrew is a package manager originally for the Mac but has been ported to Linux – Linuxbrew – it makes installing most open source software (like Node) as simple as writing brew install node.

For Fedora based Linux distributions run the following command in your terminal application sudo yum groupinstall 'Development Tools' & sudo yum install curl git m4 ruby texinfo bzip2-devel curl-devel expat-devel ncurses-devel zlib-develand select Y to continue and wait for the packages to be installed.For Ubuntu or Debian based Linux distributions run the following command in your terminal sudo apt-get install build-essential curl git m4 ruby texinfo libbz2-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libexpat-dev libncurses-dev zlib1g-dev and select Y to continue and wait for the packages to be installed.You’ll need Ruby 1.8.6 or newer and GCC 4.2 or newer. You need to install a number of dependancies before you can install Node.js and NPM. You’ll also need the terminal to use Node.js and NPM. You should have some familiarity with the Linux terminal since you’ll need to use it to install and test Node and NPM.NPM is installed when you install Node.js® Prerequisites For example, the “request” package simplifies the process of making HTTP request so you can easily get web resources from other sites.

A package is just a code library that extends Node by adding useful features. NPM is a “package manager” that makes installing Node “packages” fast and easy. You can also use it to perform helpful tasks on your computer such as concatenating and minifying JavaScript files and compiling Sass files into CSS. Node.js® is a JavaScript-based environment which you can use to create web-servers and networked applications.

Installing Node.js® and NPM on Linux What’s Node.js® and NPM?

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