This is a safer approach as it makes sure that any package you install with Homebrew can’t wreak havoc on your computer. – Homebrew doesn’t require access to administrator-only areas of your computer in order to install NodeJS (or any other package). However, installing it via Homebrew perhaps is a preferred method: Node.js provides a package installer for Mac OS X which includes node and npm. Why use Homebrew over the default Node installer: If you have already done it, you can update it: In case you don’t have yet installed Homebrew on your macOS, you can proceed and install it following the instructions here. All server page packages are called up and installed over npm.

It comes along automatically if Node is installed. The node consists of core integrated modules, e.g., the HTTP module, in order to host a web server and other modules that can be installed via npm. Node is an Open Source Platform mainly written in C/C++.

Node is the core JavaScript runtime environment that runs on the server-side and lets you implement your application back-end in JavaScript.

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