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JavaScript

Posted by Kevin Peters
Kevin Peters
1,106 Points

Node JS environment

I am about to begin the node.js course. The introductory video states that all work will be carried out in the console within the workspaces on the treehouse website.

This is very annoying. Why does it not help you set up your local build and then take it from there. I am now left to use youtube tutorials on node.js to set it all up.

I'm not convinced with this workspaces approach. This teaching style may not be suited to me. I prefer to use my own machine and my own text editor.

Could anybody recommend a good online tutorial for setting up node.js on a server or local environment? Thanks.

1 Answer

Antonio Rodrigues
Antonio Rodrigues
2,306 Points
Antonio Rodrigues
Antonio Rodrigues
2,306 Points

There are a lot of tutorials on youtube... Installing node on your machine or server is actually quite easy, basically just follow the instructions on https://nodejs.org and you use it on your regular command prompt. Shoundn't take more than five minutes, it's just download -> install. From there I guess you can probably do everything as you see on the videos, but replicating on your own console.