What is Node.js

• Node.js is an application server based off of Google's V8 Javascript Engine. Quite a few popular frameworks have popped up around Node.js such as AngularJS and Backbone.js.

How

Get Node.js

Make a directory for your website

mcarberry@bog:~$ mkdir ~/public_web/sitename
mcarberry@bog:~$ mkdir ~/public_web/sitename/nodejs
mcarberry@bog:~$ cd ~/public_web/sitename

Download Node.js

mcarberry@bog:~/public_web/sitename$ wget http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.26/node-v0.10.26.tar.gz
mcarberry@bog:~/public_web/sitename$ tar -xf node-v0.10.26.tar.gz 
mcarberry@bog:~/public_web/sitename$ cd node-v0.10.26/

Build Node.js

mcarberry@bog:~/public_web/sitename/node-v0.10.26$ ./configure 
mcarberry@bog:~/public_web/sitename/node-v0.10.26$ make
mcarberry@bog:~/public_web/sitename/node-v0.10.26$ make install DESTDIR=~/public_web/sitename/nodejs

Cleanup Install Directory