nvm is a version manager for node.js, designed to be installed per-user, and invoked per-shell. nvm works on any POSIX-compliant shell (sh, dash, ksh, zsh, bash), in particular on these platforms: unix, macOS, and windows WSL.

To install or update nvm, you should use the following cURL(for Linux, and MacOS) or Wget ( for Windows Powershell users) command:

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.7/install.sh | bash

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.7/install.sh | bash

Running either of the above commands downloads a script and runs it. The script clones the nvm repository to ~/.nvm, and attempts to add the source lines from the snippet below to the correct profile file (~/.bash_profile, ~/.zshrc, ~/.profile, or ~/.bashrc).

export NVM_DIR="$([ -z "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME-}" ] && printf %s "${HOME}/.nvm" || printf %s "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/nvm")"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" # This loads nvm

To verify that nvm has been installed, do:

command -v nvm

or

nvm -v # to see the version number example: 0.39.3

If you want to see what versions are available to install:

nvm ls-remote

To install a specific version of node:

nvm install 14.7.0 # or 16.3.0, 12.22.1, etc

To install the Long-term Support (A.K.A Stable version) of node:

nvm install --lts

# installs fnm (Fast Node Manager)
winget install Schniz.fnm

# download and install Node.js
fnm use --install-if-missing 20

# verifies the right Node.js version is in the environment
node -v # should print `v20.14.0`

# verifies the right NPM version is in the environment
npm -v # should print `10.7.0`

or download the windows installer via (Node Windows installer) and follow install instructions

To verify that Node.js has been installed properly, in your shell type the following command:

node --version

In your terminal type in the command that matches your linux distribution For administrator privileges be sure to use sudo

For the latest stable version for your release of Debian/Ubuntu

apt-get install git

For Ubuntu, this PPA provides the latest stable upstream Git version

add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa 

apt update

apt install git

yum install git

dnf install git

emerge --ask --verbose dev-vcs/git

pacman -S git

zypper install git

urpmi git

nix-env -i git

pkg install git

pkgutil -i git

pkg install developer/versioning/git

pkg_add git

apk add git

32-bit Git for Windows Setup.

64-bit Git for Windows Setup.

git --version

In your terminal type these commands without quotes

Enter your Github user name

git config --global user.name "Your Github User Name Here"

Enter the email you used to sign-up for GitHub (Very Important)

git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

Change the name of the master branch to main (Very Important)

git config --global init.defaultBranch main

Enter in terminal to see the config

git config --list

The terminal should look something like this

git config --list
user.name=Your Github User Name Here
[email protected]
init.defaultbranch=main

Remain in the terminal and enter these commands

ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C [email protected]

Hit Enter until the process is done

In the terminal open the file id_ed25519.pub inside the .ssh directory within your Home directory with the following command.

cat id_ed25519.pub

copy paste the code to your github account by adding the ssh key here

Click New ssh key button Fill out the required fields and click the add ssh key button

Once the ssh key is added, create a repository on GitHub, clone it, add files, commit and push. When you try to push the repository a popup with ask to add your system to github fully type yes, and hit ENTER.

Have fun and enjoy your new development environment.

Special thanks to nvm, Node.js, and git for helping me with the detailed information.