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Node.js is a fast, lightweight platform (built on Chrome’s JavaScript runtime) used to quickly and easily create scalable network applications.

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How To Write and Run Your First Program in Node.js

Node.js is a popular open-source runtime environment that can execute JavaScript outside of the browser using the V8 JavaScript engine, which is the same engine used to power the Google Chrome web browser's JavaScript execution. In this tutorial you'll create your first program with the Node.js runtime. You'll be introduced to a few Node-specific concepts and build your way up to create a program that helps users inspect environment variables on their system.
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How To Create a Node.js Module

In Node.js, a module is a collection of JavaScript functions and objects that can be used by external applications. In this tutorial, you will create a Node.js module organized with npm that suggests what color web developers should use in their designs. You will develop the module by storing the colors as an array, and providing a function to retrieve one randomly. Afterwards, you will run through various ways of exporting and importing a module into a Node.js application.
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How To Install Node.js on Ubuntu 18.04

Node.js is a JavaScript platform for general-purpose programming that allows users to build network applications quickly. In this guide, we'll show you how to get started with Node.js on an Ubuntu 18.04 server.
Brennen Bearnes and Kathleen Juell • ValidatedDecember 28, 2021

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Series: From Containers to Kubernetes with Node.js

From Containers to Kubernetes with Node.js eBook

This book is designed to introduce you to using containers and Kubernetes for full-stack development. You'll use Node.js to build a sample application and then containerize it. From there you will learn how to incorpo...

• By Kathleen Juell Node.js Docker Kubernetes Development MongoDB Books
Series: How to Install Node.js and Create a Local Development Environment

How To Install Node.js on Ubuntu 18.04

Node.js is a JavaScript platform for general-purpose programming that allows users to build network applications quickly. In this guide, we'll show you how to get started with Node.js on an Ubuntu 18.04 server.

• By Brennen Bearnes, Kathleen Juell Node.js Ubuntu 18.04 DigitalOcean App Platform
Series: How to Install Node.js and Create a Local Development Environment

How To Install Node.js on Ubuntu 16.04

Node.js is a popular Javascript platform that can be used to build web applications quickly and easily. In this guide, we'll get you up and running with Node.js on an Ubuntu 16.04 server.

• By Brennen Bearnes, Brian Boucheron Node.js Ubuntu 16.04
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How To Set Up a Node.js Application for Production on Ubuntu 16.04

Node.js is an open source JavaScript runtime environment for easily building server-side and networking applications. Node.js applications can be run at the command line but this guide focuses on running them as a ser...

• By Brennen Bearnes Node.js Let's Encrypt Nginx Ubuntu 16.04 DigitalOcean App Platform
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How To Install Node.js on an Ubuntu 14.04 Server

Node.js is a popular Javascript platform that can be used to build web applications quickly and easily. Node.js uses Javascript on both the front-end and back-end to create a more consistent experience for developers...

• By Justin Ellingwood Node.js Ubuntu
Series: How to Install Node.js and Create a Local Development Environment

How To Install Node.js on Ubuntu 20.04

In this guide, we will show you three different ways of getting Node.js installed on an Ubuntu 20.04 server: using apt to install the nodejs package from Ubuntu's default software repository, using apt with an alterna...

• By Brian Boucheron Ubuntu Ubuntu 20.04 Node.js JavaScript DigitalOcean App Platform
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How To Restart Your Node.js Apps Automatically with nodemon

In Node.js, you need to restart the process to make changes take effect. This adds an extra step to your workflow to have the changes take place. You can eliminate this extra step by using nodemon to restart the proce...

• By Alligator.io Node.js
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How To Set Up a Node.js Application for Production on Ubuntu 14.04

Node.js is an open source Javascript runtime environment for easily building server-side and networking applications. The platform runs on Linux, OS X, FreeBSD, and Windows, and its applications are written in JavaScr...

• By Mitchell Anicas Node.js Deployment Nginx Ubuntu
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How To Set Up a Node Project With Typescript

Writing server-side JavaScript can be challenging as a codebase grows. TypeScript is a typed (optional) super-set of JavaScript that can help with building and managing large-scale JavaScript projects. It can be thoug...

• By Jordan Irabor Node.js DigitalOcean App Platform
Series: From Containers to Kubernetes with Node.js

How To Build a Node.js Application with Docker

Interested in Node.js but not sure where to start with Docker? This tutorial will walk you through the first step: building an image for a Node.js application and creating a container from it. We will also walk you th...

• By Kathleen Juell Docker Node.js Applications Ubuntu 18.04
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How To Set Up a Node.js Application for Production on Ubuntu 18.04

Node.js is an open-source JavaScript runtime environment for building server-side and networking applications. Node.js applications can be run at the command line but this guide focuses on running them as a service us...

• By Brennen Bearnes, Kathleen Juell Node.js Nginx Ubuntu 18.04
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How To Use JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) in Express.js

Learn how to implement a JSON Web Token authentication system using JavaScript and ExpressJS. This tutorial will cover verification, login requests, saving cookies, and more.

• By Danny Denenberg Node.js
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How To Use __dirname in Node.js

__dirname is an environment variable that tells you the absolute path of the directory containing the currently executing file. In this article, you will explore how to implement __dirname in your Node.js project.

• By William Le Node.js
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How To Build a Discord Bot with Node.js

Discord is a chat application that allows millions of users across the globe to message and voice chat online in communities called guilds or servers. In this tutorial, you will build a Discord bot from scratch, using...

• By Tom Node.js JavaScript Development Programming Project
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How To Use EJS to Template Your Node Application

Learn how to use EJS as the view engine in your Express applications. Also learn about how to use partials and passing data to views and partials.

• By Chris Sev JavaScript Node.js
Series: How to Install Node.js and Create a Local Development Environment

How To Install Node.js on a CentOS 7 server

Node.js is a popular Javascript platform that is used for server-side programming. In this guide, we will discuss quite a few different ways of installing Node.js on a CentOS 7 server.

• By Justin Ellingwood Node.js CentOS
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How To Create a Real-Time App with Socket.IO, Angular, and Node.js

Learn how to build a real-time document collaboration app using Angular and the Socket.IO realtime application framework.

• By Seth Gwartney Angular Node.js
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How To Use node-cron to Run Scheduled Jobs in Node.js

Use Node.js and the node-cron library to schedule jobs to manage logs, back up databases, and send emails.

• By Chris Nwamba Development Node.js JavaScript DigitalOcean App Platform
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How To Use PM2 to Setup a Node.js Production Environment On An Ubuntu VPS

Use these instructions to setup an Ubuntu server to run Node.js applications, including apps based on Express, Geddy, or Sails. This will help you avoid some security mistakes and will provide some surprising benefits.

• By Jim Cassidy Node.js Ubuntu
Series: From Containers to Kubernetes with Node.js

How To Secure a Containerized Node.js Application with Nginx, Let's Encrypt, and Docker Compose

Secure your containerized Node.js application by following this tutorial, which shows you how to deploy a Node.js application with an Nginx reverse proxy using Docker Compose. You will obtain certificates for your app...

• By Kathleen Juell Docker Node.js Let's Encrypt Security Ubuntu 18.04

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