Install Development Environment for NodeJS on CentOS

This short blog entry will cover how to install nodejs and npm for NodeJS on CentOS.

• First, install epel repository:

  yum install http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

  For CentOS 7, use

  yum install http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/beta/7/x86_64/epel-release-7-1.noarch.rpm

• Then, install nodejs and npm via yum:

  yum install nodejs npm

• Finally, go to node project root directory and run:

  npm install

  to install required packages in package.json