The apt-get version of node is incredibly old, and installing a new copy is a bit of a runaround.
So here's how you can use NVM to quickly get a fresh copy of Node on your new Bash on Windows install
$ touch ~/.bashrc
$ curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.35.3/install.sh | bash
// restart bash
$ nvm install --lts
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| ### UPDATE: For Win 11, I recommend using this tool in place of this script: | |
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| ### https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil | |
| ### https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UQZ5oQg8XA | |
| ### iwr -useb https://christitus.com/win | iex | |
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Or, 16 cool things you may not have known your stylesheets could do. I'd rather have kept it to a nice round number like 10, but they just kept coming. Sorry.
I've been using SCSS/SASS for most of my styling work since 2009, and I'm a huge fan of Compass (by the great @chriseppstein). It really helped many of us through the darkest cross-browser crap. Even though browsers are increasingly playing nice with CSS, another problem has become very topical: managing the complexity in stylesheets as our in-browser apps get larger and larger. SCSS is an indispensable tool for dealing with this.
This isn't an introduction to the language by a long shot; many things probably won't make sense unless you have some SCSS under your belt already. That said, if you're not yet comfy with the basics, check out the aweso
