- It is primarily used to create lightweight, scaleable Web servers, which is what we're going to do right now!
- This is particularly useful as a server-side solution for receiving/responding to HTTP requests.
- Let's start by installing Node and NPM (node package manager, a public registry of installable node modules).
1. Try visiting the Node Homepage and grabbing the latest version. Once it installs, let's run a couple commands.
Assuming we're developing on OSX, open up Terminal and run:
$which node