Node.js

Installation

Windows

• Use the latest 64-bit installer
• Then you can just use it from a cmd prompt, eg: npm install -g rad-scripts

Linux

• install Node.js using the "Node.js Version Manager" nvm details
  • find the latest nvm version
  • curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.29.0/install.sh | bash
• restart terminal (or...

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

• nvm ls-remote
• nvm install node # to get the latest release (stable by default) - you can pick a release too if needed, eg 5.8.0)
• nvm alias default stable
• (update .bashrc to configure node on even non-interactive shells - the common .bashrc_env does it - it should match the restart lines, above)
  • also: nvm use 4.2.1; node -v; nvm ls; nvm alias default 0.11.13; nvm use default
  • also: You can create an .nvmrc file containing version number in the project root directory and it will default to that version
  • example: npm install -g rad-scripts # to set the package manager to use a globally shared location