Installing Node.js on Ubuntu 20.04

Introduction Node.js is an open source runtime environment that allows you to run JavaScript on the server, making application development faster and more efficient. In this guide, we'll show you how to install Node.js on Ubuntu 20.04.

Steps To get started, we'll need to add the Node.js custom package source to get the latest versions. In this example, we will install version 17, which is the latest at the time of writing this guide.

First, do the following commands to download and install the necessary packages:

curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_17.x | sudo -E bash -

After downloading the settings, install Node.js using the package manager:

sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

To check the installation to make sure the installation was successful, you can check the installed version by running the following command:

node -v

It will show you the installed version if everything is working as it should.

Conclusion Applying these steps, you will have successfully installed Node.js on Ubuntu 20.04, allowing you to run JavaScript applications directly on your server.