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Creating your first Node app

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Creating your first Node app

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- [Instructor] Node.js is a platform for building pretty fast and scalable server applications using JavaScript. Node is the runtime, and NPM is the package manager for Node.js modules. Now, Visual Studio Code has support for the JavaScript and TypeScript languages out of the box, as well as Node.js debugging. However, to run Node applications, you'll need to install Node runtime on your machine. Now, it's possible to install Node from downloading it from this website, but, however, we're going to go ahead and use Brew to install it, if we are on a Mac. However, if you are on Windows, definitely download and install Node from this site. And you could choose what's recommended for most users. So I'll hop over to the terminal and do a Command + K to clear the screen. And I'll start off by typing in brew install node. All right, looks good. I'll clear the screen. And what we're going to do to get things started is to create the simplest Node application. So I'll back out of my .NET…

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