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Download Node.js and what is Node.js?

Download Node.js and what is Node.js?

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Download Node.js and what is Node.js?

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Okay, so in this section and also in all future sections coming up. We need to have node installed So if you don't have node, this is just a quick video to instruct you to download node now node or node Js. I should say to be specific is an open-source Cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment it allows us to execute JavaScript code on the server side So we can actually execute it from our terminals We can execute it outside of our web browsers. As we've seen so far, we've been executing it here in our browsers. But if we get Node, we can actually execute it in our terminal. And you can open up your terminal by typing in terminal for max. Node is actually built on the V8 engine. That's Google's V8 engine. So it's pretty fast, very reliable, and it does optimize. So in order to get Node, all you have to do is go to their website. You go to nodejs.org, and then follow the instructions to download. So it should automatically detect your operating system. So it's got the Mac over…

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