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Installing tools and CLIs

Installing tools and CLIs

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Installing tools and CLIs

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- [Instructor] We'll be using both the Node.js runtime along with npm. We'll be working with the current LTS, which is 12.18.2 at the time of this recording, and you will need at least version six of npm, which comes bundled with Node. If you are using Windows, go ahead and click on the button to download the executable. If you're on a Mac or a Linux machine, you can use nvm, the node version manager, which allows you to manage multiple versions of Node. I recommend you use nvm as it makes things very simple. First, let's use the install script. I am going to use cURL, and you can just copy and paste the terminal command. Head over to your terminal and we can paste that and run that. Next, in your terminal, you can now install version 12 of Node.js using nvm install 12. This command will install the latest version of 12. We can now verify both versions in the command line using node --version, and we see version…

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