Node.js and NPM
Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. It is used for many different applications including using JavaScript as a server side language. Node.js as comes with Node Package Manager, the largest ecosystem of open source libraries in the world.
Note
We will not be directly working with Node.js in this course, but some of the resource we will use will rely on it.
To install Node.js, go to the the Node.js Website, and download the installer for latest LTS version of Node.js. Once downloaded, follow the instructions to install Node.js and NPM.