Working with nodejs

Installing NVM

NVM has the same role for nodejs as rvm for ruby: managing different versions of the nodejs ecosystem.

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.8/install.sh | bash

Logout from gui and console, then re-login and install nodejs (here the lts and latest dev versions)

nvm --version
nvm ls-remote | grep Latest
# this shows the latest LTS versions.
nvm install v8.11.2
nvm install node
nvm ls
nvm use node
nvm use lts/carbon
nvm alias default node 

Refs

NVM github site NodeJS site DO tutorial Express example Building a static site generator