Nodejs Master Class 💪 🚀

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Course outline 💹

• Introduction 💡

  • what is Nodejs and it's ecosystem
  • Installing Nodejs & yarn
  • Text editors and IDEs
  • Git & github primer
  • Bash crush course
  • Introduction to HTML and Bootstrap
  • Basic Javascript reminder
  • Choose and agree on final goals/projects

• Basics of Node

  • Design principles

Requirements

• Nodejs Installed on your laptop ~ use the instructions below
• Yarn package manager ~ Instructions below
• Git software, installed
• Text-editor or IDE of choice

Resources links 🔗

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Installing Nodejs

On Windows

Download and install the files from the links below

• Windows 64 bits here
• Windows 32 bits here

Installing on linux

• using Node version Manager nvm(Recommended way)

       # Install nvm on your system
       curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.24.0/install.sh | bash
       # Check if nvm is installed run
       nvm --version
       # Install stable version of nodejs
       nvm install stable
       # or the latest
       nvm install latest
       # Choose a default version
       nvm use stable

• Using package manager

   # Use your distro package management tool
   sudo apt install nodejs nodejs-legacy 

Installing Yarn

We will use yarn as the package manager as opposed to npm which comes with Nodejs installation

• Windows Just follow this Link and download and install the software

• Linux users

  # Add PPA sources
  curl -sS https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
  echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list
  # Install yarn now
  sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install yarn
  # Confirm installation
  yarn --version

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Installing IDEs and Text editors

Atom

Visual Studio Code

Sublime Text 3

Web Storm

Feel free to use any other text-editor or IDE.

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Installing git

Windows

Download and install git from here

Linux

      sudo apt install git