INSTALL_NODE.md

401 PRE-WORK INSTALL NODE

• Install NVM
• Install NodeJS

# Install NVM

Download NVM

• Open the command line
• Copy the folling command in and press enter

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.32.1/install.sh | bash

This will create the directory ~/.nvm and install nvm into it

• run ls -a ~/ and look for the .nvm directory

Configure BASH to load nvm

• Run the command touch ~/.bashrc ~/.bash_profile
  This will make sure the files ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_profile exist
• Open the ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bashrc files in your text editor
• Add the following lines to the end of your ~/.bash_profile

# Read $HOME/.bashrc, if present.
if [ -f $HOME/.bashrc ]; then
  source $HOME/.bashrc   
fi

• Add the following lines to the end of your ~/.bashrc

export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" # This loads nvm

The Bash configuration files are loaded by bash at different times. We edit them both to ensure node will allways be setup.

• ~/.bash_profile is the personal initialization file, executed for login shells
• on OSX this runs every time you open a new terminal window
• on Linux this runs every time you login to your computer
• ~/.bashrc is the individual per-interactive-shell startup file
• on OSX this runs every time you type the command bash
• on Linux this runs every time you open a terminal or type the command bash
• run source ~/.bashrc to load the new configuration
• run command -v nvm to verify that nvm is installed (it should output "nvm")

# Install NodeJS

• run the command nvm install 6
  this will install the latest version of node 6
• Open ~/.bashrc in your text editor
• Add the following line to the end of your ~/.bashrc to configure nvm to use NodeJS version 6

nvm use 6

• run node -v to verify NodeJS v6 is installed (it should output "v6.x.x")