Tagged “npm”

Jan 12, 2015

Installing Node.js and npm on Ubuntu 14.04

I've decided to start being systematic about learning javascript, with a focus on getting good with d3js. I'll be installing nodejs and npm (node package manager) as a way to get access to a javascript console and, for later, a powerful javascript environment.

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Mar 14, 2016

Installing node LTS version on Ubuntu 14.04

In a previous post I installed nodejs on Ubuntu 14.04 using what were current instructions at the time. Those notes are outdated at this point so I thought I'd document the current way to install the LTS version of node.

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Jul 13, 2016

ES2015 using Node, Babel and Webpack

In this post I will cover setting up a project that uses ES2015/ES6 -- modern JavaScript-- that will still work in current web browsers that need ES5. The trick is to use Babel to transpile ES2015/ES6 code to ES5, which can run on current browsers. Why do this? Well, ES2015/ES6 is the future of JavaScript and I'd like to start using it now.

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