Let's install and run some javascript in Node

• Go to NodeJS official website, install it
• Check version by entering node -v in your command line tool

Version Side Note

NodeJS and IO.JS

Directly input to NodeJS

• Open up your terminal/command line prompt
• Key in node and hit enter
• Type in any JS code you want, Node will throw them to V8 and give you back the what V8 returns

Run a JS file with Node

• Key in node [the name of your JS file] , this will give Node an entry point to run your JS
• Open up Visual Studio Code, open a folder, create your JS file
• Go to Debug tool, hit run, this will add some setting files to your folder
• Hit run again to run your file with Node, you can also set breakpoint

Big Word

Breakpoint: A spot in our code where we tell a debugging tool to pause the execution of our code.

So we can figure out what's going on ...