Set up iojs environment for Node API class

README.md

Instructions

If you

• run Mac OS X or Linux
• have iojs installed ($ node -v prints v2.0.1)
• can bulid binary Node packages (npm install ws doesn't fail)

then you can skip all the steps below.

Otherwise, do the following:

1. Install VirtualBox
2. Install Vagrant
3. Create a folder, place Vagrantfile and setup.sh into it
4. Execute vagrant up, it will take a while. Make sure that it prints v2.0.1 at the end.
5. Run vagrant ssh and then inside the box run node -v. It should print v2.0.1
6. Read about how to use Vagrant shared folders.

If you get stuck, contact me (andrew.listochkin on Skype)

setup.sh

sudo locale-gen UTF-8
echo '================================================='
echo 'Starting up...'
echo '================================================='
echo 'Updating packages...'
echo '================================================='
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_iojs_2.x | sudo bash -
echo '================================================='
echo 'Installing iojs-Latest...'
echo '================================================='
sudo apt-get install -y --force-yes build-essential iojs
node -v

Vagrantfile

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.box = "ubuntu/trusty64"

  # Create a forwarded port mapping which allows access to a specific port
  # within the machine from a port on the host machine. In the example below,
  # accessing "localhost:8080" will access port 80 on the guest machine.
  config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 80, host: 8080, auto_correct: true
  config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 3000, host: 3000, auto_correct: true

  config.vm.provision "shell", path: "./setup.sh"
end

Current version of Node.js is v0.10.32
And version v0.11.14 is marked as unstable. (http://blog.nodejs.org/2014/09/24/node-v0-11-14-unstable/)

Are you sure that we should use it?