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Installing Node.js on Amazon Linux AMI

The following will guide you through the process of installing Node.js on an AWS EC2 instance running Amazon Linux AMI 2016.09 - Release Notes

For this process I'll be using a t2.micro EC2 instance running Amazon Linux AMI (ami-d41d58a7). Once the EC2 instance is up-and-running, connect to your server via ssh

Make sure our server has the latest packages : sudo yum update -y

	// dependencies
	var async = require('async');
	var path = require('path');
	var AWS = require('aws-sdk');
	var gm = require('gm').subClass({
	imageMagick: true
	});
	var util = require('util');
	// get reference to S3 client
	var s3 = new AWS.S3();

	/*
	A neuron is basically the sum of its synapses.
	Along with a trigger threshold, that's all we need to calculate
	whether or not it will trigger at any given moment:
	*/
	const neuron = ({ synapses = [], threshold = 1 } = {}) => ({
	synapses,
	threshold
	});