Node.JS

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JS compatibility (For Node.JS)Node Green
MVC frameworkExpress
Theme EngineJADE Language - Node Template Engine
EJS - Embedded JavaScript Templating
DB/ORM/ODMMongoDB
Monogoose
HTTP reverse proxy serverNGINX
Desktop GUInode-webkit

Setting up a Node development environment

See: MDN’s Setting up a Node development environment
See also: Development Linux PC setup notes

In Ubuntu (18.x), type

$ sudo apt install nodejs
$ node -v
v8.10.0
$ sudo apt install npm
$ npm -v
3.5.2

Create New NodeJS Project

$ mkdir -p ~/Documents/nodejs/webscraptest
$ cd ~/Documents/nodejs/webscraptest
$ npm init
This utility will walk you through creating a package.json file.
It only covers the most common items, and tries to guess sensible defaults.

See `npm help json` for definitive documentation on these fields
and exactly what they do.

Use `npm install <pkg> --save` afterwards to install a package and
save it as a dependency in the package.json file.

Press ^C at any time to quit.
name: (webscraptest) 
version: (1.0.0) 
description: A test for web scraping
entry point: (index.js) 
test command: 
git repository: 
keywords: 
author: 
license: (ISC) 
About to write to /home/badbuta/NodeJS-Proj/webscraptest/package.json:

{
  "name": "webscraptest",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "A test for web scraping",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC"
}

Is this ok? (yes)

Then, a package.json is created.

Create a sample index.js:

console.log("Hello");

To start the node program:

$ node index.js

In order to use npm to start the program:

Edit the package.json:

{
  "name": "webscraptest",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "A test for web scraping",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1",
    "start": "node index.js"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC"
}

Then start via npm:

$ npm run start
-OR-
$ npm start