Setting up Node.js environment on Ubuntu (Part-1)

Introduction -
Follow the following steps to install nodejs environment on Ubuntu machine

If you haven’t checked out my tutorial about Node.js Tutorials Summary (Part-0) follow the link below to know the list of all node.js tutorials available and their end results -
https://medium.com/@akash_jadhav/node-js-tutorials-part-0-a48b44bb3b6e

Note — All below commands are to be executed in terminal

Step 1 — Check if node.js is already present on your machine using below command. If it displayed version number, then node.js is present on your machine else it is not.

nodejs -v

Step 2 — If Node.js is not present on your machine continue further.

Step 3 — Adding node PPA (Personal Package Archive). There are two types of node packages available -
a) Current release (latest version of node — currently its 12.3.1)
b) LTS release (Long Term Support release / stable version of node)

a) To install Current release, input the following commands in terminal

sudo apt-get install curl python-software-properties
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_12.x | sudo -E bash -

b) To install LTS/Stable release, input the following commands in terminal

sudo apt-get install curl python-software-properties
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo -E bash -

Step 4 — Installing node to the machine. Along with Node.js, NPM(Node Package Manager) also gets installed automatically.

sudo apt-get install nodejs

Step 5 — Now check if node & npm is present on your system using below commands. The result should be version number of node and npm.

nodejs -v
npm -v

Hurrah!! you have successfully installed Nodejs environment.
Welcome to Node.js!
Now you can start your journey in Node World and don’t forget to clap.
Best Luck and Happy Nodeing!!

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https://medium.com/@akash_jadhav/getting-started-with-node-js-305ca4e5ab55