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So, are you all excited and rubbing your hands eagerly to get hold of Node.js?
You don't need to wait for too long,
let's just head over to nodejs.org and get hold of Node.js.
In your browser head over nojs.org,
and as you browse down you see the download buttons for
nojs for your specific platform.
In this case is shows the download buttons for MacOS.
So click on the LTS version of Node.js.
At the moment, it is version 6.9.1.
You might encounter a slightly higher version of this in the future,
but nevertheless, get hold of the LTS version of Node.js.
Click on that to download the installer package for your platform.
Once you get hold of the installer package,
double click on it to start installing Node.js.
Depending on your operating system you will see a window like this
on your computer and
just follow along the instructions to install nodejs on your machine.
You may need administrative privileges to install Node.js on your machine.
So make sure that you are logged into an administrator account and
install nodejs to be accessible by all users that are logged in on the computer.
And once the installation is complete let's go ahead and
verify that Node.js jas been installed correctly.
Open up a terminal window or a command window and
add the prompt type node -v to check the version of node installed.
Similarly, check npm -v to check the version on npm installed.
I am starting with these versions of node and
npm, and the subsequent exercises will be based on these.
Even if you installed a later version I'm pretty sure that
it will be backward compatible so all the steps should work pretty much the same.
With this we complete installation of Node.js.
So let's go ahead and make use of Node.js in the next exercise.
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