The apt-get version of node is incredibly old, and installing a new copy is a bit of a runaround.
So here's how you can use NVM to quickly get a fresh copy of Node on your new Bash on Windows install
$ touch ~/.bashrc
$ curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.35.3/install.sh | bash
// restart bash
$ nvm install --lts| " On Linux/OSX this is ~/.vimrc | |
| " On windows this is ~/_vimrc | |
| " Don't drop garbage files everywhere. | |
| " Note that this disables vim backup files, which I'm cool with, but | |
| " maybe you're not. | |
| :set nobackup | |
| " Prepend (^=) the windows temp dir as the place to keep swap files. | |
| " The // tells vim to use the absolute path to avoid collisions. |
