How to install NodeJS on CentOS 7

NODEJS

        Node.js is an open source javascript-based framework/platform runs on top of Google chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. It's cross-platform. It’s written in C++ and is used in Google’s Chrome browser. It uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model. Here the two methods are provided for installing Node.js in Ubuntu 

PREREQUISITE

      User with sudo permission or sudo command is required

INSTALLATION PROCEDURE

Follow the below steps to install NodeJS and NPM on your CentOS machine.

Make sure to replace 8.x with the correct version 

curl -sL https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo bash -

Install the NodeJS package by typing

sudo yum install nodejs

You may also need development tools to build native addons:

sudo yum install -y gcc-c++ make

Check the node installed version by typing 

node -v

And also check the npm version by

npm -v