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Published inJun 2018
Reading LevelBeginner
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781789138085
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Juha Hinkula
Juha Hinkula
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Juha Hinkula

Juha Hinkula is a software development lecturer at Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences in Finland. He received an MSc degree in Computer Science from the University of Helsinki and he has over 17 years of industry experience in software development. Over the past few years, he has focused on modern full stack development. He is also a passionate mobile developer with Android-native technology, and also uses React Native.
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Installing Node.js


Node.js is an open source JavaScript-based server side environment. Node.js is available for multiple operating systems, such as Windows, macOS, and Linux. Node.js is needed to develop React apps.

The Node.js installation package can be found at https://nodejs.org/en/download/. Download the latest Long-term Support (LTS) version for your operating system. In this book, we are using the Windows 10 operating system and you can get the Node.js MSI installer for it, which makes installation really straightforward. When you execute the installer, you will go through the installation wizard and you can do so using the default settings:

After the installation has been completed, we can check that everything went correctly. Open PowerShell, or whatever Terminal you are using, and type the following commands:

node -v
npm -v

The commands should show you the installed versions, Node.js and npm:

npm comes with the Node.js installation and is a package manager for JavaScript. We will use...

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Juha Hinkula

Juha Hinkula is a software development lecturer at Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences in Finland. He received an MSc degree in Computer Science from the University of Helsinki and he has over 17 years of industry experience in software development. Over the past few years, he has focused on modern full stack development. He is also a passionate mobile developer with Android-native technology, and also uses React Native.
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