Node.js

Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.

Installation

Node.js is available from the NodeSource Debian and Ubuntu binary distributions repository.

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_18.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt install -y nodejs

To compile and install native addons from npm you may also need to install build tools:

sudo apt install -y build-essential

To check Node.js version:

node -v

To view documentation:

man node