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LoopBack installation

LoopBack installation - Node.js Tutorial

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LoopBack installation

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- [Man] Before we get started, there's a couple of things you'll need to install to work with loopback. First, you're going to need nodejs, or just plain node. If you don't have it installed already. If you don't have it installed, visit nodejs.org to get either the lt's or current version for your operating system and you'll be good to go. If you're unsure if you have installed it already, you can go into your command prompt and type node-v which tells node to display the installed version. As long as you don't get an error, you should be okay. You may see a different version number but that's fine. The next thing you need is npm or the node package manager. You can think of this as a super installer. Its super power is that when you ask it to install something it figures out everything that program relies on and installs it as well, but it's smart enough to recognize when you have something already installed and will skip over it, because of how useful it is a heck of a lot of…

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