Starting from Debian 8 (Jessie), Node.js is available in the official repositories. The lasted Node.js comes with npm (Node.js package manager) bundled, allowing you to install external Node.js modules easily. As Node.js is fast evolving, it is recommended to install the latest Node.js from its source, instead of installing an outdated pre-built package. Node.js is available as a pre-built package on some distros (e.g., Fedora or Ubuntu), while you need to install it from its source on other distros. In this tutorial, I will describe how to install Node.js on major Linux distros including Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and CentOS. Node.js comes with a command line utility called npm which allows you to easily install, version-control, and manage dependencies of Node.js libraries and applications from the vast npm online repository. What makes Node.js even more attractive for backend server development is the huge ecosystem of Node.js libraries and applications. Node.js has become a popular choice for building high-performance server-side applications all in JavaScript. Node.js is a server-side software platform built on Google's V8 JavaScript engine.
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