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Daniel Li is a full-stack JavaScript developer at Nexmo. Previously, he was also the Managing Director of Brew, a digital agency in Hong Kong that specializes in MeteorJS. A proponent of knowledge-sharing and open source, Daniel has written over 100 blog posts and in-depth tutorials, helping hundreds of thousands of readers navigate the world of JavaScript and the web.
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Installing Node

With that background on modules out of the way, let's begin the development of our application by installing Node.js on our local machine. Just like the saying "Many roads lead to Rome", there are many ways to install Node.js on your machine. You can do one of the following:

But the easiest way is to use Node Version Manager (nvm), which has the added benefit of allowing you to download and switch between different versions of Node. This is especially handy if you're working on different Node projects at the same time, each using a different version.

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There are several popular programs that manage the Node versions for you. nvm and nave manage Node versions per user/shell, which means different...

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