Installing NodeJS on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Introduction

Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform, back-end JavaScript runtime environment that allows developers to use JavaScript to build server-side applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model, which makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for building scalable, high-performance applications.

Prerequisites

  • Basic knowledge of Linux commands.
  • Up and running Ubuntu 22.04 Machine
  • Root permission

In this post, We will show you how to install NodeJs and NPM on ubuntu 22.04 LTS machine

Step 1: Run System Updates

We need to update the current ubuntu repository by following command.

sud apt-get update

Step 2: Install NodeJS

By default nodeJs repository avalable in default ubuntu repo of ubuntu 22.04 LTS, We cabn direct use the given command to install NodeJS package.

sudo apt install nodejs -y

Step 3: Verify NodeJS version

Once the installation process got completed so then we need to execute the gievn command to validate the NodeJS version.

node -v

Step 4: Install Node Packge Manager

NPM stands for “Node Package Manager” and it is the default package manager for Node.js. It is a command-line tool that allows developers to install, share, and manage packages of code written in JavaScript. NPM provides access to over 1.4 million packages of reusable code, which can be installed and used in Node.js projects.

To install npm.

sudo apt install npm -y

To verify npm version.

npm -v

Conclusion

We have successfully installed NodeJS and npm on ubuntu 22.04 LTS, If you still have questions, please post them in the comments section below.

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